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CALIFORNIA SUMMER LAND 

California is a land of mountains high and grand with beautiful valleys between, 

Where the summer winds blow as the years come and go, thru beautiful groves ever green, 

And where the sun shines bright, from morning until night, nine days out of ten all the year 

Making all Nature sing, in perpetual spring with robins and roses to cheer. 

Where the pure mountain air circulates everywhere, so cool for sleeping all the night, 

And when the sun's aglow gentle sea breezes blow, tempering the day to man's delight. 

Beautiful land ! Wonderful land! Charming land of the west! 

This bright and balmy summer land, of all the world the best. 

And thus bounded is she, between desert and sea, with the air so dry and so fresh, 

And the climate so pure it will certainly cure all the pains and ills of the flesh. 

She's a great commonwealth with a climate for health and water as pure as the spring. 

And a soil very rich when put under the ditch where her water alone is King. 

While in the mountain streams and subterranean seams she has water enough to flow 

To all the land (we hope) on this Paciflc slope, where semi-tropic products grow. 

Beautiful land! Wonderful land! Charming land of the west! 

This bright and balmy summer land, of all the world the best. 

She has treasures untold, in rich minerals and gold, and some unknown millions in oil, 
While her orchard and vine can produce fruit and wine for all New England's sons of toil. 
Her fine harbors and bays will the whole world amaze with shipping and commerce some day 
For the increasing trade which expansion has made is certainly coming this way. 
And her cities will grow where the climate is so unexcelled for comfort and health. 
And draw to them the best of which earth is possessed of beauty, of art, and of wealth. 

Beautiful land! Wonderful land! Charming land of the west! 

This bright and balmy summer land, of all the world tne best. 

COPYRIGHTED BY THE AUTHOR 1907 — Horace C. Kellogg 



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CONTENTS 



The Author (Illustrated) 
California Summer Land (A Poem) 

Chap. I. Little Holes in the Sky Called 

the Stars Page 9 

Chap. II. Christian Science "25 

Chap. III. Mind and Matter In Evolution " 41 

Chap. IV. Examining the Records ... "57 

Chap. V. The Religion of Humanity . . "67 

Chap. VI. What Will the Harvest Be? . " 81 

Chap. VII. Conclusion "89 

A Moonlight Spiel (A Poem) 

The Sorrows of a Poor Old Man (A Poem) 



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PREFACE 

I have dedicated this little volume to my Dear 
Friends who are interested in the discussions of the day, 
on psychological, physiological and sociological prob- 
lems vs. occultism, mysticism and anarchism, believing 
that each one of you will appreciate my unique and real- 
istic pen pictures, unfolding to the mind a broad view, 
and wide swing of thought up and down the evolutions of 
time, and my clever orthographic style of grinding the 
fossils of tradition under the wheels of progress, and 
burning the cobwebs of superstition with the torch of 
education, so euphoniously arranged, and typographic- 
ally transcribed to these pages; and that you will enjoy 
reading the book, whether you can agree with me or not. 

H. C. K. 



CHAPTEE I. 



Little Holes in the Sky Called the Stars 

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star 

How I wonder what you are, 
Up above the world so high 
Like a diamond in the sky." 

It is indeed very wonderful and beyond the power of 
man to find out for sure what the millions of little stars 
that twinkle all the night like diamonds in the sky can be. 

I well remember what I told Mother one cold winter 
night, after coming in from out doors. I said, "Mama, I 
believe the Lord has got a big fire up in heaven tonight". 

Mother asked me why I thought so. 

I said, " 'Cause I seen it shin' through the holes". 

This was before I was five years old, so even at that 
early age I had logically solved the problem of the stars. 

Mother always thought I was a very bright boy, and 
would tell what I said about the Lord's big fire whenever 
she had company, and many other remarks of mine about 
the Lord which she considered very thoughtful and 
original for a little boy to make. 



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Now, as I look back to that time after more than fifty 
years of life's experience in observing the stars and 
other things, I cannot see where there was any origin- 
ality in that remark about the Lord's fire shining through 
the holes. 

My impression of the heavens on that bitter cold 
night was all in accord with my education. 

Father always spent the long winter evenings read- 
ing aloud to Mother by the light of the fireplace, and on 
this particular night we had to have a very big fire to 
keep warm. Mother had told me a great deal about the 
Lord and about heaven. I don't remember of her telling 
me much about this world, more than that God, who she 
said was the same man as the Lord, made the world and 
everything in it, and that he held the sea in the hollow of 
his hand. She told me that God wrote the Bible, and I 
always believed Mother had almost the whole Bible com- 
mitted to memory. 

Mother would have Father read some in the Bible 
every morning and then get down on his knees and look 
up aloft and talk to the Lord. 

Father had told me that the world was round, which 
I understood to be round like a plate, so I believed I 
could see to the edge of the world in every direction. 

Probably Mother had never given a thought as to 
what the stars are, yet it has never occurred to me as 
being very wonderful that my little active mind should 
have come to such a perfectly natural conclusion as to 
what the stars really are; for does not the Bible say 
something somewhere about how a little child shall lead 
them? 



Little Holes m the Sky Called the Staes 11 

Geologists tell us that the world is round like a ball ; 
that it is about twenty-five thousand miles around it, and 
that it turns over every day and the sea doesn't spill, 
only slops up a little, which they call the tide. 

The astronomers tell us that the sun is one of the 
stars, which are like big worlds all on fire, and that the 
sun is thirteen hundred thousand times larger in volume 
than this world, and that some of the stars are several 
times larger than the sun. They tell us the sun is 
93,000,000 of miles from us, and that it takes a ray of 
light eight minutes to come to us from the sun, and that 
some of the stars we can see are so far away that it takes 
a ray of light more than six thousand years to come to 
us from one of them, and while we may be looking at 
these stars so far away from us in the northern hemi- 
sphere, there may be people in the southern hemisphere 
looking at stars just as far away in the opposite direction. 

They also tell us that by the aid of the telescope 
they can see millions of stars way out in the heavens 
beyond the farthermost stars visible to the naked eye; 
besides millions that are nearer but not large enough or 
bright enough to be seen by us. Something like one thou- 
sand millions, I believe, is the estimated number of these 
glowing stars down to the sixteenth magnitude that may 
be seen through the telescope. 

They tell us that the sun has eight planets or worlds 
like our world whirling around it, some of them several, 
hundred times larger than this world, but so far away 
from us that they do not look as large as some of the 
stars, and when looking at them if we did not notice that 
they shine by reflected sunlight instead of twinkling by 



12 The Jumble 

their own light, we would not be able to tell them from 
the stars; that the moon is a cold, dead world that goes 
around this world every month, and that two of the other 
planets have four and one eight moons or satelites going 
around them. 

These astronomers tell us that all the stars are suns 
just like our sun, and are supposed to be centers of other 
solar systems, and they have been reported as saying 
that since the big telescope has been put up on Mount 
Wilson, in the dry California atmosphere, they have been 
able to count as many as sixteen hundred planets in one 
solar system of which one star is the center. 

These wise men called scientists tell us all this stuff 
as a simple demonstrated matter of fact and so much 
more that it requires hundreds of volumes as large as the 
Bible to record and explain all the wonderful things 
which they say are true and perfectly natural. 

Mathematics they tell us is the foundation of all 
knowledge, and they say figures won't lie. 

Since the whole human family seems to be juggling 
with figures to prove everything, we might be willing to 
concede this point if it were not for our inherited beliefs 
handed down to us from mythology. 

The science of chemistry, they tell us, is the key to 
all the sciences, and while all the elements of matter 
known to science that go to make this world and every- 
thing in it, either animate or inanimate, or the sun or 
the stars may be written down on one page, yet to enum- 
erate all the different substances that are produced by 
chemically mixing these few elements would require 
volumes just to name them. To illustrate: we might 



Little Holes in the Sky Called the Stars 13 

mention that a definite amount of each of the elements of 
oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon, can be chemically united 
in a hundred different ways to produce a hundred dif- 
ferent substances that are entirely different from each 
other ; while the different substances that are and can be 
produced by uniting these three elements in different 
proportions is almost beyond calculation. 

Fire, or combustion, they tell us, is only matter 
chemically changing from certain elements or substances 
into other substances, and that the heat and light pro- 
duced are only forms of energy into which matter is con- 
verted while the chemical change is taking place, and 
that the wood in the fireplace or any other substance that 
may seem to be burned up is not destroyed, but only 
changed to other substances which through the process of 
nature will in time be changed back again to substances 
similar to the things that seemed to have been destroyed. 
So, if this world is ever burned up as the Bible says it 
will be, there will be smoke and ashes an.d gases and 
energy enough out of which to make another world just 
like it, and they say it is very probable that this world 
has been a star for a long time and then a world for a 
long time a great many times over, and that the same 
things will happen a great many times more, for they 
say eteenity is a long time in the past or in the future. 

The Bible Account or Creation" 

These scientists tell us that people with inquiring 
minds who care to know the whys and wherefores of 
things, find the study of mathematics and chemistry and 
geology and astronomy all very interesting. 



14 The Jumble 

But all of us who are willing to take God's word for 
everything, find our time too precious for singing Psalms 
and reading fiction and chasing the almighty dollar to 
pay for the music, to be fooling it away trying to find 
out how the world was made or counting the stars, or 
studying about mathematics and chemistry and heat and 
energy and all the rigamarols they tell us takes hundreds 
of volumes to explain. For has not God told us in the 
very first chapter of His Book how in six days He created 
the heavens and the earth and everything that was made, 
by just saying let it be so, and it was so, and is not that 
enough for us to know? 

Not while ignorance is bliss, or believing so much 
easier than investigating will the true believer ever be 
found seeking to know the cause of things that belong 
only to God, or the scientists to know. 

Facts are stubborn things, and theories founded on 
facts are equally stubborn. They are like the tides' ebb 
and flow, or the years that come and go, while the stars 
shine on forever. 

More Wonderful Things 

But there are still a great many other things 
that the scientists tell us which I will not say much 
about more than to mention a few subjects upon which 
any of us may read for ourselves all about many of the 
things into which they have made research and investi- 
gation, providing we expect to live a hundred years to 
perform the task. 

The first subject I will mention is Botany which 
science alone is beyond the possibility of a life time for 



Little Holes in the Sky Called the Stars 15 

one to become perfectly familiar with all that has been 
investigated and recorded in regard to the propagation, 
history and classification of all the plans in the world. 

They also tell us that if one were to devote his whole 
life to the study of physiology and its kindred branches, 
he would find the longest lifetime too short, and the 
largest brain too small, to understand and become famil- 
iar with what has been discovered and investigated and 
recorded as undisputed facts in regard to the construc- 
tion and workings of that most intricate and wonderful 
physical machine, the human body, and its relation to 
the animal kingdom; to say nothing about keeping up 
with the times in physiological research and investiga- 
tion. 

The scientists have done a great deal of investigat- 
ing along the line of pathology and claim to have dis- 
covered the remedies for many of the diseases that flesh 
seems to be heir to ; some of which diseases have almost 
depopulated the world at different times in the past. 
With the aid of the microscope they have been able to 
discover a world of what seems to be of living things 
that are not visible to the naked eye. 

These little bugs, — as they are sometimes called, al- 
thought they more resemble plants, of which there are a 
great many kinds, — are said to breed true to kind and 
will multiply very rapidly, so rapidly in fact it is said, 
that more than one billion will be produced from one in 
twenty-four hours under favorable conditions. They are 
said to be the cause of fermentation and decay, and are 
believed by some to be the cause of disease, which is only 
a form of decay. 



16 The Jumble 

We may read all about these little things in the 
Encyclopedia Brittanica under the name of Schizomy- 
cetes. 

The bacterologists who spend their time investigat- 
ing and studying the nature of these little micro-organ- 
isms tell us that besides all the wicked little bugs that 
seem to make people sick, they have discovered a great 
many kinds that are very useful to us; some that seem 
to assist plants in securing nourishment from the soil, 
and some that when planted in the soil with the seeds 
of plants seem to multiply and fertilize the soil and make 
it richer by absorbing the nitrogen from the air and con- 
verting it into nitrates; and that since the discovery of 
this kind, which was only recently, they have already 
become worth millions of dollars to the farmers. 

They tell us that the flavor and spongyness of our 
bread depends on the kind of bugs we put in the dough, 
an<l the number of millions we allow to multiply before 
we kill them by baking. That the flavor of our butter 
and cheese and wine and many other things depends on 
the kind of bugs we use and at what age we kill them, and 
thai it' it wcrr not for these little bugs, and knowing how 
to use them, the old demon, Rum, would never have been 

• . or any of the spirituous tangle-foot family ever 
been born. 

Thru there are kinds which are supposed (by some, 
not all), to assist digestion and help to prepare our food 
to be converted into living matter so as to build up and 
nourish our bodie 

It is estimated by one very eminent bacterologist 
who has made a specialty of investigating along this line, 



Little Holes ix the Sky Called the Stars 17 

that about one hundred and twenty-six thousand million 
of these little microbes, good or bad, come into existence 
in the alementary canal of the average adult person 
every day. 

Then there are others that seem to devour the 
vicious little bugs that make us sick, and assist in making 
us well again, and so many other kinds we might men- 
tion, only it makes a Bible student heart-sick to talk 
about such rot. 

A True Bible Stoey 

Is it not strange how man has managed to live in 
this world from the time Adam and Eve were turned out 
of the Garden of Eden, before they had finished college, 
until this generation without knowing anything about 
these little bugs? 

God told Adam that he would have to eat his bread 
in the sweat of his brow, which might have meant that 
he would have to sweat to make his bread, or that his 
bread would be so hard that it would make him sweat 
to eat it. 

But we know the Bible says God has repented of 
some of the mistakes He has made, and did He not raise 
up Moses to lead half a million or so of the children of 
Israel out into the wilderness, or rather out into a bar- 
ren desert where there were no flocks or herds or grow- 
ing grain, or fruits for them to eat, nor even water for 
them to drink, just to demonstrate to them that if they 
would only trust him and be good, they would neither 
have to spin nor weave nor plow nor sow, nor even sit 
up nights to tend their flocks and watch the stars. And 



18 The Jumble 

did not God command Moses to smite the rock with his 
little Divining Rod, which caused a river of water to 
flow out of the rock sufficient for drinking and bathing 
for that great multitude. 

Did not God cause the quails of the desert to cover 
the whole camp at evening as thick as grasshoppers, and 
did he not send a shower of breakfast food every morn- 
ing sufficient to feed every man, woman and child for the 
whole day, and enough every Saturday to last over Sun- 
days, without missing a day for forty years? 

It may have been hard on the quails, but of course 
God can make quails just as easy as He can make grass- 
hoppers. 

Alter forty years of quail on toast, it seems that 
these good people, like Adam and Eve, began to tire of 
the simple life God would have them lead, and longed 
for the promised land that flowed with milk and honey, 
and so they made war with the Canaanites and slew them 
and took possession of their flocks and herds and fields 
and vineyards and proceeded to brew their wine, and eat 
their bread in the sweat of their brows, and to tend their 
flocks and herds, and watch the stars for the coming of 
the morn with the sheep in the meadow and the cows in 
the corn. 

A long time after this, when the shepherds were 
tending their flocks and watching the stars, there was a 
bright star appeared in the Bast, which they knew to be 
a Bign that God had come into the world to give them a 

tical demonstration of how to live the simple life; 
and -arc enough when they went towards the star it 

seemed to hover right over a stable, and the shepherds 



Little Holes in the Sky Called the Staes 19 

went into the stable and found the little God there in the 
manger and they worshipped him. 

This God, which they named Jesus, grew up just like 
any other little boy and became a man just like any man, 
only He could perform miracles. He told some fisher- 
men to forsake their nets and follow Him and He would 
make them fishers of men, and that they should take no 
thought as to what they should eat or drink or where- 
withal they should be clothed, for all these things would 
be provided them. 

He demonstrated to them how to take two little 
fishes and five loaves of bread and feed a multitude of 
five thousand people at a picnic and give everyone a 
lunch basket full to take home. He showed them how to 
walk on the water bare-footed. 

He showed them how to make wine out of water 
without putting in any grape juice or little bugs. 

He put the doctors out of business by healing the 
sick and lame and opening the eyes of the blind . 

He put the undertakers out of business by raising 
the dead to life again. 

He put the herders out of a job by putting the devils 
into the swine so that they all ran into the sea and were 
drowned. 

He disputed with the Doctors and Elders in the 
Temple and called the Pharisees hypocrites. 

He made a whip out of cords and drove all the Jew 
Pawnbrokers out of the Temple and threw away their 
money. 

Finally the Jews (God's own chosen people), were 
accused of killing Him by nailing Him up on a cross be- 



20 The Jumble 

twe< 11 two thieves, and right then and there He demon- 
strated to the whole world that He was the very God, 
by causing an earthquake to rend all the rocks which may 

ieeu to this day, and by turning day into night and 
making the stars shine in the day time. 

And alter they had killed Him and put Him in a 
tomb He came back to life again within three days and 
walked out, and showed His gory hands and feet to the 
disciples; and after clothing the disciples with power to 
perform miracles and with the gift of tongues, so they 
could talk and understand all languages, and appearing 
unto them often mysteriously and unexpectedly and be- 
ing with them more or less for several days, He was seen 
to ascend up into heaven to dwell among the stars, by 
many people who stood gazing up into the sky until lie 
had gone out of sight. 

What Might Have Been 

If it had not been for the conspiracy between the 
>rs and High Priests to persistently put to death the 
Apostles and millions of the followers of this Christ for 
fifteen hundred years by burning and beheading and 
drawing them asunder so they could not come back to 
life again, they would have been very much alive and 
kicking at the presenl time, and their power for good 
would have become bo great long before this as to have 
banished Bickness, sorrow, pain and death from the 
world, and in our day and generation we, their descend- 
ants should have been able to have provided ourselves 
with food and drink and clothing and shelter and auto- 
mobiles and Dying machines just by affirming. 



Little Holes in the Sky Called the Stabs 21 

The Scientists' Creed 
But what good can we say of the scientists ! 
As a rule they are conscientious, honorable people 
who love the good and the beautiful and their neighbor 
as themselves. 

They will not do unto others what they would not 
have others do to them. 

They are kind to the beasts as the wolf is to the 
lamb, the same as all the rest of us, and some are more 
kind. 

They do not believe in the supernatural, or that 
there ever was such a thing as a miracle. 

They believe that life and death and everything that 
is, is perfectly natural, and that nature's law is perfect 
and supreme. 

That matter and force and space and time are 
boundless and eternal; that nature's laws have always 
existed, and matter the cause of all phenomena ; and that 
man came by the natural law of evolution, and upon that 
law all his future rests. 

Nature's law is their God, humanity their religion, 
evolution their faith, and science their creed. The world 
is their country, education their politics, truth their gov- 
ernor and love their fellowship. 
They say: 

When true knowledge is spread abroad 

Then peace and love on earth will reign. 
And nature's God will be man's God: 

Her grandest work the human brain. 
The world from dogma will be free, 

The Golden Eule will be man's guide, 
And man will pin his faith on Thee, 

Triune Mother, Dame and Holy Bride. 



22 The Jumble 

They have no quarrel with religion, only they refuse 
to believe any of the superstitions which they say that 
the one thousand or so different religions in the world 
are all founded on, — for which they are to be pitied more 
than blamed, — because there is only one true religion in 
the world, and we know that all the other religions are a 
lot of superstitious beliefs and nothing more. 

But it is so plain to see that there is not a particle 
of superstition about our religion that any wayfaring 
man though a fool might see if he were not prejudiced. 

The scientists believe that the great mass of re- 
ligious people are sincere and honest, but they say, what 
is the good of being honest if you don't know anything. 

As for us Bible students (the very salt of the earth), 
who diligently search the scriptures to learn all about 
the future life, and about heaven and all the things God 
would have us know to make us wise unto the day of His 
coming, we ought to know whereof we speak, but they 
only say to us: "What is the use of knowing so much 
if whsi you know isn't so. ,,? 

But whatever they say will not deter us from per- 
forming our duty to our God by offering up our daily 
prayer and supplication in order to save our own souls, 
which is the only thing of great importance to us; and by 
repenting and asking God to forgive us every time we 
do something wicked, which He has promised to do as 
many as Beventy and seven times a day, providing we 
can DO BOMBBODl so many times in one day and shall ask 
His forgiveness. 

Shaikh A i ill: TBUTH 

The scientists become so engrossed in the pursuit of 



Little Holes in the Sky Called the Stars 23 

knowledge that they are willing to risk all their future 
by devoting their lives to research and investigation in 
order to find out the real truth, of how the stars and the 
world and every living thing in the world has come into 
existence, all of which seems to be at variance with the 
teachings of the Bible. 

It is true they have learned to utilize the forces of 
nature for our comfort and pleasure, even to the harness- 
ing of God's own thunderbolts and making them do 
man's work, and to carry the sound of his voice to for- 
eign lands, and his very thoughts around the world. 

But what will it profit a man to gain all this knowl- 
edge and lose his own soul? For when these men are 
called to give a final account of their doings, unless they 
repent at the last moment, they are certain of being sent 
straight to Hell by the very God who made them, where 
the Bible says there will be weeping and wailing and 
gnashing of teeth through all eternity. 

But we know that all of those who were properly 
brought up in the terror of the Lord, and had the right 
kind of religious dope instilled into their young hearts, 
will be almost sure to croak when they are about to pass 
in their checks and come to realize the jig is up. 

Theoky of Evolution 

Some of the most thoughtful observers among the 
scientists who have had a great deal of practical experi- 
ence along their several lines of research and investiga- 
tion have written many volumes on the subjects of Ani- 
mal Kingdom, Histology and Evolution in which they 
have recorded the results of their research and investiga- 



24 The Jumble 

tions and have added their philosophy which almost 
seems to prove that man is related to all the lower ani- 
mals that have ten fingers and ten toes, and some that 
have not. 

We are able to vouch for the serpent that has none, 
for it was he of all the beasts who was able to talk with 
Eve in the Garden of Eden, and tell her that green ap- 
ples were good to eat, for which the Lord cursed him and 
made him to walk on his belly to this day. 

Neither will the scientists dispute with us about 
Eve's picking the apple, for there never was a scientist 
like Newton for thousands of years after Eve, who was 
wise enough to discover that an apple would fall to the 
ground if left on the tree until ripe and fit to eat. 

It is true a horse hasn't five toes on each foot, but 
it is plain to see by dissecting a dead horse's foot that he 
lias one toe on each foot and four others that have either 
-fronted or have been amputated (rudiments), but I am 
told they have discovered the bones of a horse that must 
lived thou sands of years ago, that really did have 
throe toes on each foot; and I understand they are now 
digging in some old California mire hole in hope of dis- 
covering the hones of some prehistoric horse that may 
have had five toes on each foot. 

But, to cap the climax, these scientists would have 
us believe thai man, the mammals, the reptiles, the fishes 
and even the plants are related, and that the connecting 
link between the plants and animals is a star, (star-fish, 
I believe.) 

Now, wouldn't that jar yon | 
fall that the limit ! 



Little Holes in the Sky Called the Stars 25 

Is it possible for us who cherish the sacred memory 
of our mothers and our early teachings, to believe our 
senses when we are told that this is the very stuff that 
is being taught to our children in the public schools ? 

Is it at all strange that the good Catholic who holds 
sacred the tradition of his fathers should choose to edu- 
cate his children in the parochial schools, where they 
will not become contaminated with such heresies'? 

Is it any wonder that so many of our most influen- 
tial leading lights, among all the churches of Christen- 
dom should get their theology, science and pathology so 
jumbled up as to either drive them to the bug house or 
to accept the ancient teachings of the Hindoos that have 
come down from the ages before God wrote the Bible. 

Some of these ancient vedantaian philosophies have 
been translated and revised to fit these strenuous times 
and bring order out of chaos to the minds of these be- 
wildered people. 

One of these revised manuscripts has been re- 
vised several times by a very eminent leader of one of the 
sects sometimes called New Thought, and put into a little 
book, the title of which would seem to indicate a conglom- 
eration of science, pathology and theology. 

These ancient teachings in relation to the scientific 
statement of being, as we find them revised up to date 
are, that God did not make the world after all. That the 
world does not exist. That mind is God, and God is all 
in all, so that mind being all, mind is all that is real. 

That what seems to be matter or the world or the 
stars, or anything we call material is only the illusions 
of mortal mind, whatever that may be, and therefore is 



26 The Jumble 

not real, and does not exist. 

I may not have quoted the " Scientific Statement of 
Being", ver batim, but I think I have stated the meaning 
correctly, which, if true, demonstrates to my mind as 
clear as mud, that my first impression of the stars was 
correct, that they are only little holes in the sky after all. 

Now, where are we at, and what do we know? 

Shall we live in two worlds or only live in one? 

Do we live at all, or is it all a joke? 

Having disposed of the shell, we will now turn host, 
and don the garb of the scientist, and proceed to serve 
the reader with the meat of the cocoanut, and some of 
the milk to wash it down. 



CHAPTER II. 



Chkistian Science 

The foregoing chapter was written for reading at a 
Scribbler's Club, in response to roll call topic, "The 
Stars ". The title assumed was "Little Holes in the Sky, 
Sometimes Called the Stars''. 

The essay begins with a simple story of fact, and is 
written from the viewpoint of innocence and ignorance. 

After reading and revising and adding a little I dis- 
covered that by enlarging the title to include some of 
the world's religions I had a text big enough, and had 
laid a foundation broad enough on which to write a book ; 
but of course I have never written a book, and don't 
know that I can. 

I have decided, however, to plunge ahead and do 
the best I can ; if I find I am not able to write just what 
I want to say offhand, I will fill in by quoting something 
I have read about what others may have said. 

In as much as in the closing of the first chapter I 
was dealing with a certain little book, I will begin this 
chapter by quoting some from that book, the true title 
of which is "Science and Health With Key to Scrip- 



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- ' \ The book is claimed to have been written by 
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the founder of a new religion 
called Christian Science. 

( )n the cover of the book is a gilt dice about the size 
of a double eagle in which is inscribed the monogram of 
a cross and crown, and these sentences, " Raise the Dead. 
Heal the Sick. Cleanse the Lepers. Cast Out Demons,' ' 
which we might recognize to be either a key to the Holy 
Bible, or an advertisement for some combination eye- 
opener, stomach bitters, flea-wash and bedbug extermi- 
nator. ( Who ever heard of such a combination!) 

The wise old head that could study out and devise 
Buch a beautiful design and appropriate motto for at- 
tracting humbug chasers to read her book certainly dis- 
played a genius that would bring success to a beggar. 

Now let us take a peep into the book and see if we 
find anything worth mentioning. 

The book contains 700 pages and I have read it from 
cover to cover and must confess that I have been unable 
to discover anything that appeals to me as being based 
on any Material matter of fact, perhaps I am prejudiced. 

However, I will copy a few testimonials which I se- 

iniii sixty-eight that are printed on the last 100 

the hook; of which the author of the book says 

that, "thousands of such letters could be presented in 

"ii\ of the healing efficacy of Christian Science and 

particularly concerning the vast number of people who 

'i reformed and healed through the perusal and 

studj of this book:" (Her very words.) 

be fair LB my selection I will vo})v everything 
printe ! on the last Pour pages of the book of the revision 



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of 1901, printed in 1902, being one of the 252nd thousand. 

I am particular to state which book I copy from, be- 
cause it has been said that the author has revised and 
changed the book something like two hundred and sixty 
times. She says in the book that God had been gracious- 
ly fitting her for many years for the reception of this di- 
vine principle by which she was inspired to write the 
book in the first place, and if we can understand any- 
thing at all by reading the book, it would seem that the 
author of Science and Health was inspired to write the 
book by the same God that inspired the patriarchs of old 
to write the Bible; and that this little book is calculated 
to be read in company with the Bible to explain the 
meaning of the Bible so it can be better understood by 
God's children of this generation, and it would further 
seem that He is the same old fussy and changeable God 
He always was, or He would not have put His own ap- 
pointed Mother Mary to so much trouble in revising and 
rewriting the little book over so many times just to 
change a word or two here and there that didn't happen 
to please Him; and that He is just as likely to make 
mistakes now as He ever was. 

I have just begun to write my first book. I don't 
know that I will ever be able to finish it, or that it will be 
of any importance to the world whether I do or not. I 
think I have got something to write and I want to write 
it in my own peculiar way, and I believe I will get more 
satisfaction out of writing it myself than I would by 
trying to inspire someone else to write it for me. 

So I think God should have written such an import- 
ant book as the Holy Bible Himself in the first place, just 



30 The Jumble 

as I was taught to believe He did do; but since He did 
not, and the job was so bungled as to cost His children 
so much hard fighting, and bloodshed and discord to keep 
it from destruction, and such an army of workers and 
interpreters to keep it in repair and interpret its mean- 
ing; and since it finally became absolutely necessary to 
have a key to unlock its mysteries. I do really think God 
should have profited by His past experience at least and 
went about writing this key Himself and not have en- 
trusted such an important work to a poor old woman who 
was having about all the family trouble she could very 
well get along with; especially since He had to spend so 
much time in fitting her up to do the job for Him. 

I know that it doesn't make any difference to the 
world what I think about it, only there are millions and 
millions of thoughtful, honest people that are thinking 
just the same as I do, and, too much of this inspiration 
racket is likely to make us skeptical and to lose faith in 
the inspirer. 

However, I may be spiritually blind and not able to 
discern the ways of the Divine, so I will let it pass and 
proceed to copy the testimony. 

( Sealed by Reading the Book) 

Two years ago I knew nothing whatever of 
Christian Science, and when it was first brought 
to my notice, 1 asked numerous questions in re- 
gard to it in a skeptical way, having no faith in 
such a thing as mental healing. For upwards of 
fifteen years 1 had been an agnostic. In my early 
days I had been a member of a protestant church, 
and not having received the comfort and peace I 
was looking for at that time, and becoming, in con- 



Christian Science 31 

sequence, very much dissatisfied, I finally drifted 
away from religious circles altogether, until I be- 
came practically an infidel, or at least an agnostic. 

When asking questions about Christian 
Science I was referred to Science and Health and 
commenced reading this book. At first I was puz- 
zled, but stuck to it, (for I was looking for the 
truth at this time,) and having imbibed somewhat 
of the spirit conceived the idea of putting it into 
practice. For some time I had been compelled to 
wear glasses specially ground for bad cases, as 
the occulist pronounced it, of astigmatism. If I 
did not wear them when working, I would soon 
have a headache, which would compel me to stop. 
I was enabled, through the simple reading of this 
inspired book, to lay aside these glasses, and have 
not felt the need of them for more than eighteen 
months. Also I had been an inveterate tobacco 
smoker for a number of years, and considered this 
habit my chief source of enjoyment, but at the 
same time that I removed my glasses, I stopped 
smoking, and have not had any desire to resume 
the habit from that day up to the present time. 

But more than this, far more, is the wonder- 
ful revelation of the truth, the finding of a God 
that can be understood and reached. 

Once more I wish to express my gratitude to 
the founder of Christian Science and author of 
Science and Health, and my daily prayer is to ob- 
tain more and more of the understanding which 
is set forth in her cherished works. 

X.X.X., Chicago, III. 

(Healed by Reading Science and Health) 

About four years ago I met two young ladies 
who told me of their, to me, wonderful healing 



32 The Jumble 

through Christian Science. They were very earn- 
est and honest, and as I had an opportunity to 
watch their every-day life I had positive proof 
that they had perfect health without the use of 
drugs, and no fear of food, climate or disease; 
above all, they had peace and happiness. These 
things I desired above all else, for I was a great 
sufferer, with a miserable disposition, and was 
afraid of everything in the world. I was afflicted 
with catarrh, female trouble, lung and throat 
trouble, neuralgia, rheumatism and indigestion. 

I was a physical wreck. The doctors had 
failed to cure me of anything, but for a while re- 
lieved me somewhat. Soon I had to drink hot 
water and apply hot water as my only relief from 
pain. 

"What happiness I experienced when I became 
convinced that God had not sent this suffering on 
me as I had been taught. I persuaded my husband 
who was bed-ridden, to try the Christian Science 
treatment and he was healed in a month. 

I thought as soon as I could afford to pay for 
treatment I would take it, but felt in no hurry, as 
I had suffered so long I had become accustomed to 
pain and was in no fear of immediate death. 

While I waited I bought a copy of "Science 
and Health with Key to the Scriptures", by mak- 
ing a sacrifice. 

I went to the Christian Science church regu- 
larly and listened to every conversation on the 
subject, picking ap crumbs of truth, for I was 
starving, Buffering, and miserable. I accepted 
willingly the statements I read in Science and 
Health, whether I understood them or not, and to 
my astonishment I began to set well without treat- 
ment from anyone. Nothing I ate hurt me; 



Christian Science 33 

weather began to lose its power also. 

As sunshine banishes clouds and light dark- 
ness, the diseases disappeared from my body. I 
have used no drugs and am in perfect health; and 
this healing, being lasting, caused my relations to 
know that in Christian Science there is help for 
the sick when doctors fail, so they are in health 
also, having tried the same fountain from which 
flows only pure water — truth's fountain — Science 
and Health. 

X. X., Dallas, Texas. 

Healed Aftee Mateeial Means Had Failed 

In the fall of 1895 I first heard of Christian 
Science. I was at that time confined to my bed 
with no expectation of ever recovering, as my phy- 
sician, who was one of the leading physicians in 
Philadelphia, where I then resided, had told me he 
could do no more for me. I had undergone a seri- 
ous operation in the hospital, where I remained 
four months without receiving any benefit. I was 
then brought home in a much weaker condition 
than when I went. I kept my room and most of 
the time was confined to my bed, eight months 
longer, until Christian Science was brought to me. 
The operation at the hospital had greatly aggra- 
vated the nervous prostration from which I was 
suffering in addition to many other troubles. The 
stomach could not retain food. I was wasted to a 
skeleton. The eyesight was badly impaired from 
a painful form of astigmatism. There were times 
when I could not bear the light, and other times 
when I could not endure the darkness and had 
to keep a light burnino: all night. I was fitted 
to glasses, but was unable to wear any of them. 
Words cannot describe the agony of those months, 



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both mental and physical, but Christian Science 
has changed it all, giving me a new heaven and a 
new earth; the heaven and earth of the scientific 
understanding of God as Love, who heals all our 
diseases. 

From a condition of extreme suffering and 
emaciation, I have come to a realization of perfect 
health and strength, and happiness, through the 
teaching of the Christian Science text-book, 
"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures". 
X. X. X., Baltimore, Md. 

Reads Like an Old-Fashioned Almanac 

"We leave the reader to judge as to the sincerity of 
these testimonies. 

The author of the book assures us that they are gen- 
uine, and while their assertions may seem to be ridicu- 
lous to the uninitiated, their claims are no more remark- 
able or wonderful than the claims set forth in the testi- 
monials accompanying all the patent medicines that were 
ever put on the market, and there are thousands of fam- 
ilies thai would not know how to keep house without a 
supply of patent medicines on hand to take either before 
or after meals. 

We have known men to mix water, molasses and 
whiskey and a few other tilings together and get a patent 
on the formula, and by judiciously advertising their nos- 
trums and publishing spurious testimonials, to become 
millionaires, with only this difference; they gave seven- 
ty five per cenl of their profits to the trade, while it is 
not on record that the author of Science and Health ever 
gave our cent to the trade out of the million or so of 
profits Bhe made publishing and Belling her book. 



Christian Science 35 

But whatever may be thought or said about the in- 
fluence that the reading of this little book may have in 
healing the sick, and causing the lame to throw away 
their crutches, and opening the eyes of the blind so they 
can see to read without glasses ; it would seem to me that 
this process of healing is very much simpler and will be 
cheaper in the long run, than taking patent medicines to 
accomplish the same results. 

The old-fashioned almanacs of the last generation, 
that were given away at every corner grocery, fairly 
bristled with symptoms, all the way from the twitching of 
the eyelids to the pain under the shoulder blade, that 
were sure indications that you had (that old cannard) 
the liver complaint, for which was prescribed, Dr. 
Price's, Dr. Jaynes', Dr. Ayers', and forty-seven other 
Dr.'s celebrated Liver Pills. 

The reading of these symptoms and the spurious 
testimonials about the wonderful cures effected by tak- 
ing the pills, convinced millions and millions of people 
that they really had the liver complaint and led to the 
swallowing of more than one hundred thousand carloads 
of these celebrated liver pills to get rid of the liver, by 
such ignorant people, as not one in a thousand of whom 
would ever have suspected they had a liver if they had 
not read about it in the almanac. 

This liver complaint racket has had its run, and the 
prevailing hoodoo of this generation is indigestion or 
stomach trouble, which seems to be making everybody 
seasick. 

But, as Lincoln once said "You cannot fool all the 
people all the time" in the same way, and as the world 



36 The Jumble 

is getting wiser, the people had to have some more at- 
tractive dope set before them this time, so the celebrated 
Drs. (my namesake at the head of the list), have flooded 
the country with a hundred brands of starvation break- 
fast foods, for which the people are charged ninety per 
cent for the brand and ten per cent for the food; and 
when these humbug chasers have swallowed the pills 
and the breakfast slops and all the other dopes pre- 
Bcribed by the family physician, put up in inviting, inno- 
cent looking and pleasant tasting little capsules, long 
enough to get purged and hungry and distracted, and 
after trying the seven hundred different dieting fads 
with no relief, is it any wonder that these ignorant, su- 
perstitious folks who have been catechised and physiced 
and slopped and doped until they find themselves be- 
tween the fear of hell, and the suffering liver complaint 
or stomach trouble, too miserable to live and too wicked 
to die, should turn to Christian Science wherein they are 
assured that there is nothing in the world the matter 
with them, and that heaven is here, now, and always, 
an 1 love is divine, and that all they have to do to enjoy 
heaven, and realize love's desire, is to throw away their 
pill boxes and breakfast slops, and read the little book, 
and to eat good, solid food and forget it, and to laugh 
and -row fat and be happy. And who is there that would 
deprive them of their happiness or disturb them in their 
illusions, unless perchance some smallpox epidemic 
should happen to break out, or when some of them might 
have to be quarantined for some real contagion, or be 
taken to the hospital to have a kidney or cancer cut out. 



Chkistian Science 37 

Advice and Ckiticism 

If the reader has never read Science and Health 
with Key to Scriptures, I would suggest that they bor- 
row the book of some Christian Science friend long 
enough to read the first ten pages of Chapter VI. These 
ten pages give a very comprehensive insight into the 
founding of this new religion of Christian Science, and 
the underlying principles upon which it is founded. They 
may also be taken as a fair sample of the contents of 
Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures ; to read 
the book from cover to cover will not add anything to 
what may be found in these ten pages, and if after read- 
ing this much the reader thinks he can swallow the dope, 
all I have to say is, it isn't my medicine. 

However, I would advise all who have any reason to 
think they might be benefited by reading the book, to buy 
it and read it as long as they can receive any benefit out 
of reading it. 

For all of those who have read the book and feel as 
though they would like to take some good antidote I 
would recommend the reading of Christian Science by 
Mark Twain. 

We have some convictions of our own as to the effect 
of material poisons on physical organisms, and as to 
some of the effects that a dissipated body will have on 
the mind. 

We also realize that either a cheerful or a distracted 
mind will affect the body for good or ill. 

We also believe that the conscious mind is wholly 
made up and comes to be what it is, and is controlled to 
some extent, by suggestions, of one kind or another, that 



38 The Jumble 

coinc to us through our senses, so if the right kind of 
suggestions are presented to our senses to properly in- 
fluence our conscious minds to assist, and not interfere 
with the unconscious mind, or nature, that nature does 
the healing and that is all there is to it. 

If all the people were born sound and brought up 
right, and were taught how to breathe and what to eat, 
they would never have any need for a doctor (barring all 
accidental injuries, poisoning or contagion), and if they 
were all honest and moral, and never worried themselves 
over imaginary ills, there would be no use in the world 
for ( Christian Science. 

I have heard very credible people testify to almost 
miraculous cures of animals through Christian Science 
treatment; in one case of an old cow that had been bitten 
by a rattlesnake, and another of an old sow that was im- 
mediately cured when in the last stages of hog-cholera, 
and we may read somewhere in one of the books, held 
sacred by the cult, of a pet dog being restored to life 
alter it had died from accidental poisoning, and why 
not .' 1 F a true understanding of the wisdom contained in 
Science and Health properly applied can raise the dead 
and heal all the diseases that flesh is heir to, most cer- 
tainly the animals are flesh, the same as the rest of us. 
Bui if this wisdom is not sufficient to raise the dead, then 
the Bentence, "liaise the dead" has no business to be 
printed in gold letters on the title cover of the book. 

Bui as a matter of fact the really dead ones never 
come hack t<> life, and the really sick ones are never 
miraculously cured, so there must be some mistake some- 
where, and we think the mistakes are all in the diagnosis 



Christian Science 39 

of the troubles. 

All this belief in divine healing, so called, of what- 
ever name or kind or creed, or whether prescribed 
through the medium of some Holy Spook, of this or any 
other generation, seems so silly to me, that I can hardly 
refrain from expressing my opinion, the very thought 
of which suggests the odor of brimstone so strong that 
I believe it would scorch the page if I should try to write 
it down. 

Isn't it strange that the most ignorant people in the 
world seem to know the most about God, and are always 
ready to tell us all about God, and to teach all His divine 
attributes to the little child, before it is old enough to be 
sent to the public school, equally, and in the same class 
with all the most learned educators in the schools and 
colleges; declaring that worldly wisdom counts for 
naught. And for one so deficient in a general and broad 
education, as the founder of Christian Science, to claim 
to have discovered that mind and God are one, and that 
the divine mind in man is the all in all, and that mortal 
mind (so-called by the founder), and the material body, 
and everything that appeals to our senses as material, 
or substance, is but the image of the mind (which mind 
we are not sure of), and therefore is not real, and does 
not exist, is all so absurd, that it would seem that such 
a doctrine could not find a believer in all Christendom. 
However, in the light of experience, such seems to be 
the propensity of the human race to go chasing after 
humbugs, that it sometimes seems almost a pity that 
Noah and his family had not missed the boat. 

If the mysteries of life and the mind and nature's 



40 The Jumble 

law in relation to matter and force and the magnet and 
gravitation and the universe itself are ever revealed, 
they will be discovered by the true scientist through re- 
search and investigation and not by the visionary Ed- 
dyites or Christian Scientists just by affirming. 






CHAPTEE III. 



Mind and Mattek in Evolution 

The trouble with all fads and isms and religions is 
they all go to the extremes. 

To come to an understanding of the relation of mind 
and matter in sentin ent organisms they must be con- 
sidered as one and inseparable: Mind is born and de- 
velops with the body; it also perishes with the body. 

The vital forces called life are generated within the 
body, and mind is but the product of life's experience. 

When dead substances are being converted into liv- 
ing matter, the life and mind manifest, are nothing more 
nor less than certain forces that are produced by the 
chemical reactions that are taking place within the body. 

This is just as surely so as that the heat and light 
produced by a lamp is but the effect of the chemical 
changes that are taking place, while the pint of oil in the 
bowl (carbon and hydrogen), and a definite amount of 
oxygen from the air is being chemically changed to pro- 
duce a pint of water (oxygen and hydrogen) and a defi- 
nite amount of carbonic acid gas, which gas is returned 
to the air to take the place of the oxygen consumed. 



42 The Jumble 

When we come to think of it, what a tremendous 
amount of light and heat must have been given out while 
the mighty ocean was being produced; — since water is 
one of the products of fire. Thoughts like these are 
enough to stimulate one's circulation to more than sixty- 
nine a minute. 

The leaves of trees and plants breathe in carbonic- 
acid gas and the roots drink in water carrying salts of 
the earth in solution, and when they meet in the chemical 
laboratory of the plant, the carbonic-acid gas chemically 
unites with the hydrogen of the water to form the hydro- 
carbons that are the principal substances of plants; the 
oxygen of the water being set free is breathed out by the 
leaves, thus purifying the air so it will sustain animal 
life. 

Now when we try to calculate the ages that must 
have elapsed after the mighty ocean was produced, be- 
fore the plants that grew to produce the great coal meas- 
ure-, had sufficiently purified the air, so that things that 
breathe might live on the earth, is enough to keep one 
guessing some. 

Bui to return to the subject of mind and matter, we 
find thai some of the greatest mistakes that man has 
made on this subject is to suppose that man is the only 
animal that has a mind, or that man is a part of some 
imaginary being that is all mind. Anger, fright or wor- 
ry affects the animal the same as it affects the human 
being; material poisons affect them the same. There is 
ao difference between the mind of man and of animals, 
only in degree. 

Our knowledge comes to us through the outward 



Mind and Mattee in Evolution 43 

stimulation of our senses and our thoughts are but the 
inward reflections of this stimulation, which in turn may 
seem to stimulate our senses, and when written or spoken 
or acted they do stimulate the senses of ourselves and 
others. 

Thoughts may be compared to the phonograph and 
cinograph in that they retain and repeat to the mind the 
sensations of the outward stimulations. 

When oil is put into the lamp and the wick has be- 
come saturated and the torch applied, the oil at the end 
of the wick is ignited; or in other words a chemical 
change takes place between the oxygen of the air and the 
oil at the point of contact as soon as the temperature has 
been sufficiently raised by applying the torch, the heat 
of this reaction is sufficient to ignite the next air and oil 
that come in contact at the end of the wick, and the next, 
and so on to give out continuous light until all the oil in 
the lamp has been consumed. 

We may have a hundred lamps of all kinds and 
makes burning, some may give a brighter light than 
others on account of more complete combustion; but if 
we examine all the lights we will find that the phenomena 
is all the same, and because it is so, it would be just as 
inconsistent to say that the light of the hundred lamps, 
aggregated and intensified, was all one light, and pro- 
ceeded from the sun, or some source of all light; as to 
say that all minds are one mind which proceeds from one 
omnipotent source; or that when one lamp has been 
snuffed out, to say the light of that lamp has gone back 
to the sun, or to the source of all light, or is wandering 
around somewhere unseen; as to say that the mind has 



44 The Jumble 

any existence separate or independent of the body. 

What is believed to be the one great mind or divine 
mind from which we seem to derive our thoughts, and 
from which seems to be the source of all knowledge and 
wisdom, is but the reflections of the individual minds of 
all living creatures, and each individual mind in turn is 
but the product of a multitude of chemical reactions 
brought about by sense stimulations. Some individual 
minds are brighter than others because of a more com- 
plex physical organization and the individual's wider 
experience or greater opportunities for sense stimula- 
tion. 

Psychologists, as a rule, are better educated in theol- 
ogy than they are in chemistry and physiology. They 
look upon mind as something apart from the body, some- 
thing coming into the body from some omnipotent source 
Lighting up our bodies, as it were, the same as the sun 
shining into our atmosphere lights up the earth. So 
they endeavor to trace mind up to some imaginary God 
or divine source, instead of looking upon mind as a phe- 

ena, or the product of certain forces of nature, and 
tracing it down to its source through the physical body 
to the very food we eat and the air we breathe under- 
going multitudinous chemical reactions which are 
brought aboul by sense stimulations caused by our sur- 
rounding environments, or by the reflections of past en- 
vironments that have already been photographed on the 

! in the process of the mind's development; thus 

nlating the mind by comparison and corrections to 

ore perfect development 

1 is more to be compared to electricity than to 



Mind and Matter in Evolution 45 

heat or light, and may not differ from either only in de- 
gree of vibration. 

Electricity, heat and light are supposed to be one 
and the same, except in degree of vibration. 

Matter may be thrown together in a multitude of 
different ways, and under different conditions, so as to 
produce a great multitude of chemical changes. All 
chemical changes are accompanied with more or less agi- 
tation; that is, there is more or less electricity, heat or 
light produced whenever a chemical change takes place. 

The first thing now is to see what these forces are, 
and how they are likely to be produced. 

The atom that was formerly believed to be the small- 
est indivisible particle of matter has been proven to be 
capable of being broken up into thousands and perhaps 
millions of ions or electrons. 

When two or more substances are thrown together 
under certain conditions, the substances thrown together 
will be destroyed and new substances formed. 

The molecules of which the substances are composed 
are broken up in to their elements, and the atoms of 
these elements unite differently to form new molecules to 
produce one or more new substances, with perhaps one 
of the elements set free. 

Now the expansive force of a chemical reaction is 
caused by resolving the elements into their gaseous state, 
but the heat, light or electrical energy produced are sup- 
posed to be caused by ions or electrons being broken off 
from the atoms, or perhaps by some of the atoms being 
broken up into ions or electrons, which flow out in a 
stream of waves. If the waves are long and of least 



46 The Jumble 

frequency, or the vibrations slow, they are electrical ; but 
if the waves are shorter and more frequent heat will be 
produced, and when the waves are still shorter and still 
more frequent, both heat and light are produced. 

If a good conductor is set up so as to form a circuit 
the electrical waves will flow so gently as not to be per- 
ceived, but if a gate is put in the circuit, like a telegraph 
key or electric bell, the current will open the gate with 
much force, but if the obstruction is too great like pass- 
ing over a break in the conductor, or over a poorer con- 
ductor, the electric waves will pile up and become more 
frequent and shorter to produce great heat and light; 
when the waves are very short and frequent as produced 
by the lamp we have heat and light only; when the reac- 
tion is all over and the battery is dead, or the lamp is ex- 
tinguished, the electrons seem to have completed the cir- 
cuit, or the ions to have radiated back to their proper 
places, for nothing seems to be lost. 

Now we have come to the point where I will try to 
explain what we conceive to be mind and how it comes 
to be, and to do this we must go back to the beginning of 
sent in cut life on the earth. 

What we understand by life is something that has 
the faculty of self-nourishment, self-growth and self-de- 
cay, and sentinenf life lias the further faculty of self- 
movement and perception. 

We must conceive of a time before life in any form 
a- we know it had ever appeared on the earth; the oldest 
rooks Bh0W this to be so. 

Jusl how life came into existence is pretty hard to 
find Otlt, hut it is known that organic life began with the 



Mind and Matter in Evolution 47 

single cell. 

The ameba, which is a single cell of protoplasm, is 
sensitive to the touch, can move about by stretching itself 
into all kinds of shapes. It takes nourishment in the 
shape of lifeless matter and converts it into living pro- 
toplasm. 

Now if this little cell can move about and select the 
proper food to be converted into protoplasm, it certain- 
ly has a mind or intelligence, and if the food that is se- 
lected is converted into protoplasm to make it grow and 
multiply, there must be chemical change continually tak- 
ing place within the cell with the attendant electrons to 
supply this energy and sensitive intelligence. For, "It 
has been fully demonstrated that the chemical reactions 
in the body which constitute the physical basis of life, 
take place between substances in solution, and it is by 
means of the electrical charges carried by the particles 
in solution that reactions are brought about." Thus 
forming the endless chain to the phenomena of life. 

Atoms, like whole numbers, are the units of matter 
or substance, and when broken up into fractions, they be- 
come energy or the forces and phenomenons of nature; 
and the kind of energy, force or phenomenon is deter- 
mined by the size of the fractions into which the atoms 
are broken up. 

So if we are to look for the unit of all substance, 
energy and intelligence, we will find it all bound up in 
the little atom. 

Whenever the atom leaves its home in one molecule 
to take up its abode in another molecule it carries along 
its own torch and energy. 



48 The Jumble 

It is well known that all organisms from the simp- 
lest up to man is but the aggregation of cells of living 
protoplasm connected and grouped together for mutual 
benefit, not that the individual cells have grouped them- 
selves together, but that all higher organisms in the scale 
of evolution are the descendants of lower organisms. 

Let us go back to the time when there was no higher 
organism on the earth than the single cell ; now these lit- 
tle cells multiply by division, that is, they divide in the 
middle, one becoming two, two four, and so on; they mul- 
tiply very fast, but their days are soon numbered, they 
grow old and die. If their carcasses had been allowed to 
accumulate in the graveyard they would soon have con- 
verted all the available elements into protoplasm and be- 
come extinct. But there appeared on the scene a little 
micro-organism that devoured the dead protoplasm and 
broke it up into its primitive elements to be again con- 
verted into protoplasm, and so the endless chain of liv- 
ing and dying to live again has been going on to this 
day, and while this has been going on, some of the single 
cells in dividing in the middle, remained attached to- 
gether so they and their descendants became double cell 
organisms, and some of these double cells happened to 
remain attached together after division and became four 
cell organisms, and thus the higher and higher organ- 
isms began to appear in numerous forms and shapes and 
numbers of cells. 

It is not my purpose to explain the whole process of 
the evolution of Living things, as the reader can find it 
folly explained in hundreds of volumes of the recorded 
investigations of the scientists. 



Mind and Matter in Evolution 49 

But the point I want to make clear is that the single 
cell of sensitive protoplasm has the faculty to move 
about from place to place in search of its food, and is 
able to distinguish its bread from a stone, and to recoil 
at the touch of its enemy, or to stretch out in the pres- 
ence of its friends, or in search of its food, and to multi- 
ply and perpetuate itself, and that during the lifetime 
of the cell a chemical change of inanimate matter into 
animate matter is continually going on within itself, and 
the process of this chemical action produces the energy 
and the mind to control it necessary for its existence, and 
that at any moment the chemical action stops life be- 
comes extinct and the cell will remain intact (if pre- 
served from decay) at the point where the chemical ac- 
tion stopped. 

What takes place in and happens to the single cell 
is applicable to all the higher organisms. 

But let us go back and examine the ameba again, and 
see what we have got and try to account for his existence. 

The ameba is a little living thing wholly composed of 
protoplasm, when magnified it is seen to be composed of 
at least two kinds of protoplasm, one kind forms a nu- 
cleus, and a network of lines radiating out from the cen- 
ter similar to the nervous system of the higher organ- 
isms, and protoplasm of a lighter color filling up the net- 
work, and constituting the major part of the ameba. 

"We find this creature capable of finding, seizing, 
devouring, digesting and assimilating food, has a special 
provision for collecting fluid and pumping it out of its 
body, respires by its whole surface, moves about appar- 
ently where it will, exhibits a sensibility to tactile im- 



50 The Jumble 

pressions, and reacts in all probability to smell if not to 
sound and light, in short, it is capable of performing (in 
a small degree) almost every function which animals 
vastly higher in the scale of organization exhibit." 

So it would seem that we are dealing with a very 
complicated and highly organized little being, if we are 
to consider the ameba to be the beginning of sentinent 
life on earth. 

To account for the existence of this highly organized 
little creature we must go farther back in the process of 
evolution. 

There is no mistake about all the higher organisms 
evolving from lower, for every cell in every living thing 
high or low, gives unmistakable evidence of being the 
lineal descendants of the single cell organism. 

Now if we are able to discover the principle by which 
all this differentiation has taken place to bring about this 
evolution upward to the higher organisms, we may be 
able to apply the same principle downwards to the be- 
ginning of organic existence. 

The principle as we see it is all expressed in the one 
word environment, and the organism's necessity to adjust 
itself to this environment; or in other words, nature's 
law of evolution readjusting the organisms to harmonize 
with the ever-changing conditions under which they live. 

Natural selection is the cause of the differentiation, 
and the struggle for existence, and survival of the fittest 
arc the reasons for the upward tendency from the lower 
to the higher organisms. 

Astronomy, geology and chemistry teach us that 
there niust have been untold ages after this earth had 



Mind and Matter in Evolution 51 

taken its place in the solar system and began its revolu- 
tions around the sun, before the conditions were such 
that life in any form could have existed in the world; 
and that very probably the earth will continue to roll on 
for untold ages, after the conditions become such that 
life can no longer exist on the face of the earth. This be- 
ing so, we must conceive that these conditions arose very 
gradually, and that the very beginning of what was to be- 
come living matter was very primitive, and that the road 
from the beginning up to the ameba was very long with 
many turns, and has become so obliterated by the rav- 
ages of time, that we have not as yet been able to follow 
it back with certainty to the beginning. 

It would seem that in the evolution of the world it 
was just as much in accordance with the laws of nature 
for life to appear on the earth when the proper condi- 
tions arose, as it was for the waters to cover the whole 
face of the earth when the crust of the earth had become 
cool enough so that water could lay on the face of the 
earth, which conditions also must have taken place very 
gradually. 

It would also seem that when life had come on the 
stage, it was just as natural that it organize upward 
from a lower to a higher organism, as it is for water to 
run down hill, and that if the whole scheme had been 
planned by an all-wise mind, and guided by an all-power- 
ful hand, as measured by man's conception of wisdom 
and power then the course of evolution would have been 
straight upward, just as surely as water would run 
straight down the hill if a straight ditch has been dug 
for it to run in. 



52 The Jumble 

But streams in their flow to the sea follow the course 
of least resistance, turning this way and that, forming 
many lakes large and small, in their course, and often 
terminating in a dead sea without ever reaching the 
great ocean. 

Just so with the flow of life's organism upward. This 
organization from the simplest to the highest has been 
a road of many turns, and multitudes of branches lead- 
ing out into the desert of sterility, and making it to blos- 
som as the rose; all the innumerable branches following 
the line of least resistance upward, ever being led up- 
ward and onward by the lure of environment, or by the 
necessity of adapting themselves to the ever-changing 
conditions; each branch bringing along all that was 
gained by the experiences of the past in the shape of 
their hereditary characteristics, by which their pedigrees 
are established. 

Many of the branches have terminated in the dead 
sea of oblivion after reaching a very high state of organ- 
ization, and many are the existing branches that have 
readied that crowning state of organization that would 
seem hard to improve upon. 

If we only look at organic, or living things, as we see 
them in the world today, without studying their past his- 
tory, or note the changes that are continually going on, 
we find a multitude of things in the world that seem to 
be so nearly perfect, and so well adapted to man's wants, 
that it would almost seem that they must have been de- 
Bigned and created for man's special benefit. 

Bill we should realize that the nuts, the cereals, the 
Bilk worm, the honey-bee, the fowls or the animals, were 






Mind and Matter in Evolution 53 

no more created for man's benefit than the mouse for the 
cat's, or the hare for the foxes, or the lamb for the 
wolves, or the dove for the hawks, or the fish for the 
sharks, or if we are to believe in a special creation, for 
what great and noble purpose did the loving and mer- 
ciful God create the shark, the hawk, the wolf, the fox, 
the cat or man, for, unless it was to exercise their God- 
given instincts by torturing the timid fishes and doves 
and lambs and hares and mice and every living thing in 
His beautiful world, even unto death, just to gratify their 
love for the chase. 

But there never was any special creation. 

Every thing in the world today came to be what it is 
through natural or intelligent selection or breeding, and 
everything is capable of being improved on. 

Who is there that does not know that many of our 
choicest fruits, flowers, and vegetables, have come to be 
what they are within the memory of the adult person or 
within recent history, by being bred up from a more 
inferior stock. 

Breeding is becoming to be a science; the scientific, 
practical breeder of plants, fowls or animals, selects with 
intelligence to procure the strain desired. 

The wildcats and wolves have reached their present 
state of development through natural selection, and the 
survival of the fittest, and the domesticated cats and dogs 
have been bred from these wild animals by intelligent 
selection and the preservation of the best. The kittens or 
puppies that show a tendency to be snoopish, uncleanly 
or chicken thieves are killed; the cats and clogs that 
prove to be the best mousers, or hunters or pets, or best 
of their kind for any purpose, those that may be trusted 



54 The Jumble 

with the cupboard door open, and never eat chicken until 
killed for them, or even eat their dinner until given to 
them, sometimes speaking for it, are the ones we select 
for the breeding, the animal's disposition being the first 
consideration. 

It would be just as inconsistent to breed from a stal- 
lion with an ugly, stubborn disposition as it would to 
breed from a horse physically weak and inferior; the 
same may be said in regard to the breeding of all the 
fowls or animals. 

The practical breeder selects as much with a view to 
the animal's disposition and intellectual characteristics 
as he does for its physical make-up, and every animal's 
disposition and intellectual characteristics are so plainly 
stamped on its physical make-up that the practical obser- 
ver can tell by just looking at the animal what it will do, 
or what it is good for, as easily as the average of us can 
tell the difference between a bulldog and a grayhound; 
what applies to the animals — as being just what they 
look to be — also applies to man. 

If it were possible for man to exercise the same in- 
telligence in breeding his own species as he does in the 

ling of his animals, civilization would go forward 
with leaps and bounds. 

What has been gained in the past by the execution of 
criminals, as for instance, the two thieves on the cross, 
lias been almost lost by the sacrifice of the bravest and 
Btrongesl of the race on the battle field, so that the breed- 
ing up from barbarism has been slow. 

Hut through the advance of science and knowledge 
will conic aboul the peace of the world, so that the 



Mind and Mattek in Evolution 



55 



strongest and bravest of the race will be preserved to 
build and provide for the happy homes that are the foun- 
dation upon which all that is worth a name in civilization 
rests. 

The criminal class might be allowed to live out their 
alloted days, but at the same thne they should be sub- 
jected to such physical treatment and moral restraint 
as to make it certain that when they do pass out their 
seed will perish with them, until the undesirable are 
gradually weeded out, so that finally the scriptural 
prophecy may be fulfilled, wherein it says : * ' Blessed are 
the meek for they shall inherit the earth". 

The time may come when civilization will have 
reached that state of perfection where the righteous en- 
vironment of humanity can be trusted to regenerate the 
undesirable and bring about the millenium, but we can 
hardly think civilization has arrived at that state of per- 
fection yet; still we do believe that civilization has 
reached that critical stage where man creates his own 
environment for good or bad, and that if the vicious and 
lawless, the shiftless and thriftless, the malcontent and 
the demagogue are permitted to multiply and preach their 
doctrine of discontent and class hatred without restraint, 
they are likely to become so numerous in a free govern- 
ment as to override the Constitution, (the only founda- 
tion upon which a free government can exist) and recall 
our judges, (the only guardians of the people's liberties) 
and thus prevent the punishment of crime and defeat the 
ends of justice, which would create a state of environ- 
ment that would soon carry us all back to the jungles of 
barbarism. 









CHAPTEB IV. 



EXAMINING THE RECOKDS 



Let us next examine the records and see if we can 
find ont how the astronomers, geologists and chemists 
came to be so dog-gone sure that this big world turns 
over every day, and that it is only a speck in the heavens, 
so to speak; being several hundred times smaller in 
volume than the sun and that it goes whirling around the 
sun along with several hundred other worlds or planets, 
large and small, or that it was ever burning hot, blazing 
out in the heavens like the sun. 

Or, that there is such a little speck of matter as an 
atom, something so small that the least sensitive speck of 
organic matter will contain millions of millions of 
molecules of several atoms each, and each atom capable 
of being broken up into many thousands of smaller parti- 
cles of matter, and that when atoms are broken up, and 
their electrons set free, that these electrons will go hum- 
ming and buzzing around like so many mosquitos with 
such force as to set all the heavens aglow with chaos, or 
so gently as to wag the tail of a microbe. 



58 The Jumble 

Or that there are a thousand million suns in the 
heavens visible to the telescope with their millions of 
millions of worlds whirling around them, and that these 
millions of millions of great big suns and worlds and 
moons go spinning and whirling around in the heavens 
just the same as the millions of millions of little atoms, 
with their attendant millions of millions of millions of 
electrons go spinning and buzzing around in a mosquito ; 
and that these millions of millions of great big suns and 
worlds and moons and comets are all made up of these 
little atoms at rest or trying to rest. Or that matter is 
everywhere, and God is nowhere, and that man is only a 
chemical battery after all. 

There are colleges in India that turn out thousands 
of India's most learned scholars every year, who know 
nothing of this. The geology that is taught in some of 
these great institutions of learning today is the same 
that was taught in them thousands of years ago ; and 
that is: that the earth is flat and rests on the back and 
horns of a big bull; and these Hindoos are the most 
fanatically religious people in the world. 

India is the budding home of many of the religions, 
and one of the oldest of them is the Yedanta philosophy 
or belief in the non-existance of matter, same as the 
Christian Science belief. 

The Thermometer 

Now we will turn to the records, and whatever we 
find we will describe in our own peculiar way. 

The first we see is a thermometer. To the reader this 
may Look like a pretty small discovery, but to US it looks 



Examining the Records 59 

like one of the great discoveries of all the ages. We do 
not mean the thermometer we hang up in the shade from 
Yuma to Greenland to keep it out of the sun, but the one 
that registers from more than 5,000 degrees above to 
more than 1,000 degrees below. 

Without the thermometer, it would have been impos- 
sible to have established the science of chemistry, and 
without the knowledge of chemistry we would have been 
like children blowing soap bubbles, and now we have it 
in these two words, — Science of Chemistry. 

Does the reader realize what the word science means 
to chemistry? 

When a theory has been reduced to a science then 
our beliefs become living facts. 

We believe what we do not know to be so. 

What we know we do not believe. 

Science admits of no belief. 

Mathematics has been reduced to a science; that is, 
rules have been discovered, by which, if figures are prop- 
erly arranged they cannot lie; it is the same with chem- 
istry; laws governing the reactions of the elements 
have been discovered by which the chemist has been able 
to work out an intelligible formula for all the substances 
known; and the discovery of these laws depended very 
materially on the assistance rendered by the use of the 
thermometer. 

The application of electricity has been another great 
help in coming to an understanding of the laws that 
govern the reactions of the elements and establishing the 
science of chemistry. 

If chemistry is not a science it is no-theory. 

If matter is not matter, it is no-matter. 



60 The Jumble 

If matter does not exist then chemistry is an illusion. 

But we shall insist that matter does exist. 
The Microscope 

The next discovery we make is the microscope, an- 
other one of the great discoveries of the ages. 

By its use we are able to see the innnitesimally small 
portion of matter, or little living things that we should 
never have dreamed of. 

We are able to see how the millions of eels in the 
body are arranged in groups working together in har- 
mony to build up the body. 

How the corpuscles of the blood, which are single 
cells, carry the food in little pouches to feed all the other 
little cells in the body, and other corpuscles dressed in 
white go about among all the other cells gathering up the 
garbage and dumping it into the sewers, and how all 
these corpuscles, red or white, assimilate some of the 
food themselves and grow and multiply; and how some 
groups of cells build the canals and pump water through 
them to carry the red corpuscles to ever} 7 part of the 
body with their baskets of grub, and the white squad 
from place to place to nurse the sick and wounded cells 
and gather up the dead and offal for dumping into the 
sewers. And how other groups of cells build the sewers 
and keep them open to provide for the sanitary condition 
of the whole organism; and still other groups of cells 
that constitute the muscles which are everlastingly plant- 
ing little explosive torpedoes made by hydrocarbon and 
oxygen, ready to he exploded by the intelligence received 
through a stimulation of the Bense of Bight, to guide the 
arm with such precision as to throw or hat a curve. 



Examining the Records 61 

And how other groups of cells build up the frame- 
work and keep it in repair, in which to encase, or on 
which to string up all the other groups of cells, and carry 
them about; and how other groups of cells prepare all 
the different kinds of food for all the different kinds of 
cells. 

And to examine the great network of the wonderful 
telegraph system, and its great central office with its mil- 
lions of operators, over which system is transmitted 
every sense stimulation (conscious or unconscious) to its 
central clearing house of all intelligence, and from which 
all orders are sent out that bring about every movement, 
thought, or expression. 

To illustrate some of the wonders that, are revealed 
to the mind by stimulating the sense of vision through 
the microscope we have only to refer to the peddler sell- 
ing the little pocket microscopes on the street, giving the 
bystanders the opportunity of looking through the micro- 
scope at a very little speck of substance which he has just 
dislodged from a dried prune with the point of a pin. 

When we look at this little speck through the micro- 
scope, we see a lump of sugar and prunejuice, about two 
inches in diameter with perhaps a half dozen little black 
beetles running around on it; the beetles look to be as 
big as peas. They look just like large beetles that we 
may see with the naked eye ; we can see their eyes, their 
horns, their claws, their movements, and everything 
just as plain as if we were looking at the large beetles 
with the naked eye. 

Now, if we will examine one of these little invisible 
beetles with a high power glass so it will look to be one 



62 The Jumble 

or two inches in diameter, we will find that it is made up 
of just as many parts and as many cells as the larger 
beetles are, and if we examine the eggs of these little 
beetles we will see that they do not differ very much 
from the eggs we ate for breakfast, in that the substance 
of the germ of these little eggs was contributed by two 
little beetles, the male and female, conveying to the germ 
all the hereditary characteristics of the two parents, 
even to the color of their eyes, and number of their toes, 
and their differences by which all the variations are 
brought about that contribute to the process of evolution. 
The latent energy pent up in these little germs is only 
awaiting the right temperature, moisture, age, or some 
other influence when they will spring into life, and come 
forth the tiniest little grubs that ever baited a fish-hook 
in fairyland ; they will grow fat on decaying prunes, and 
go through all the stages of developing into full fledged 
beetles, go courting and dancing and flirting around, to 
be married, and given in marriage and lay eggs, and 
grow old and die, and be gathered to their fathers in the 
happy hunting ground, to be known no more in the world 
of prune juice and suj^ar forever. 

It is not very probable that there are as many mole- 
cules of matter in these little beetles as there are in the 
lamer beetles, but as the difference is in millions of mil- 
lions a few millions of molecules more or less will be no 
matter. 

Oh! well, what would we know about them any way 
if it were not for the microscope, and after we have 
leached the limit of its magnifying power we have to let 
imagination do the rest, just the same. 



Examining the Records 63 

There are other discoveries that have helped along 
the work of physical investigation ; we might mention the 
process of hardening and coloring the protoplasm so it 
can be sliced up thin for examining with the microscope ; 
for it must not be understood that we are able to look 
into the living organisms with the microscope and watch 
the workings that are going on there. To sum up the 
whole thing in a nutshell, probably the discovery or in- 
vention of these powerful magnifying glasses, has done 
more for the advance of the science of botany and phys- 
iology and their kindred branches than any one thing. 

The science of geology has been greatly advanced by 
examining the rocks for fossil remains with the micro- 
scope, while the whole foundation of the science of bac- 
terology rests on research and investigations made with 
the microscope. We might mention a hundred branches 
of science that are more or less indebted to discoveries 
made with the microscope, so after all is said and done, 
probably this little instrument has been the greatest in- 
stitution of learning that man has ever builded. 

Telescope and Spectkoscope 

The next things we find are first cousins to the micro- 
scope, the telescope and spectroscope. While the two 
together have been indispensable in establishing the 
science of astronomy and placing it on a broad founda- 
tion, the spectroscope has been equally useful in estab- 
lishing the science of chemistry. 

Man had been observing the heavens and noting the 
apparent movements of the sun, moon and stars, for ages 
before the telescope or spectroscope were invented. As- 



64 The Jumble 

trology grew up out of observing these apparent move- 
ments of the heavenly bodies, and the science of astron- 
omy had begun to grow out of astrology; but when the 
telescope was brought into use to aid the eye, the move- 
ments of the heavenly bodies could be observed more 
clearly and accurately, so the thoughtful observer could 
not account for all of these movements unless the world 
itself was turning over every day, and was also moving 
around in the heavens; and so the theory arose that the 
earth was a sphere. 

And when man had circumnavigated the earth and 
had measured one degree of its circumference so the 
earth's diameter was known, it only required the know- 
ledge of trigonometry to take observations and figure 
out the distance to the sun or moon from the earth; their 
distances being found, their diameters were just as easily 
determined, and when the sun, moon and earth's diam- 
eters were known, and the earth and planets' orbits were 
found out and all their movements observed, there were 
laws discovered by which all their movements can be cal- 
culated so accurately as to be able to tell just where and 
in what relative position the earth, planets, moons and 
comets that belong to our solar system will be at any 
time in the future, and in what relative position the solar 
system itself will be in ; in the sidereal universe. 

By attaching the spectroscope to the telescope, and 
letting the Light coming from the sun or any of the stars 
pass through it, determines the kind of matter that pro- 
duces the Light, and also whether the heavenly body un- 
der observation is coming towards us or receding from 
us, and how fast. 



Examining the Records 65 

To illustrate what is being accomplished by observ- 
ing the heavenly bodies through the telescope and spec- 
troscope I will copy a recent newspaper article (August, 
1910). 

Associated Press Day Eeport 

Vallejo, Aug. 6. — Anouncement is made by Prof. T. 
J. See, U. S. N., the noted astronomer, in charge of the 
naval observatory at Mare Island, that he has succeeded 
in establishing the general cause of variable stars. 

For the past ten years Prof. See has been occupied 
with extensive researches in cosmical evolution, which 
have given an entirely new aspect to the nebular hypoth- 
esis, and have become celebrated under the name of the 
"Capture Theory. " 

The main cause invoked to explain the round form of 
planetry orbits and other heavenly motions is a resisting 
medium of nebulous material which is shown to be dif- 
fused everywhere in space. 

Within the past fifteen years many hundred variable 
stars have been discovered in star clusters, especially at 
the Harvard observatory by Pickering and Bailey. Some 
of these have been critically studied by Barnard of the 
Yerkes observatory, and the periods of light variation 
found to be as regular as the motion of a perfect clock, 
so that fluctuations of light of these variables could be 
used to measure time almost as accurately as the rota- 
tion of the earth about its axis. 

In certain clusters the variables are to be counted by 
hundreds ; in others very few can be found. Heretofore 
this fact has been very perplexing to astronomers. After 
careful investigation, Prof. See finds that the cluster 
variables are suns attended by planets which revolve in 
close proximity in short periods, and that every time 
they pass through perihelium they plunge into a resisting 
medium of nebulosity so that the light suddenly blazes 






66 The Jumble 

up and afterwards dies down gradually. 

Some clusters are full of nebulosity, while others are 
quite free from it and, according to Prof. See, this ac- 
counts for the abundance of variables in certain clusters 
and their almost total absence in others. 

Prof. See says he has established also that the 
blazing forth of stars now and then in the heavens is 
caused by actual collision with plants revolving about 
them. The fixed stars generally are now proved to be 
attended by systems of planets similar to those which 
revolve about the sun. 

Prof. See asserts that any star, such as our sun, will 
have, in the long run, a collision once in a hundred 
billion years. The great length of period between these 
collisions shows that in general, such catastrophes do 
not affect the safety of the Universe. 

So, step by step, with the aid of the telescope and 
spectroscope, the science of astronomy is being built up, 
and a better knowledge of the movements and compo- 
sition of the heavenly bodies is being gained, while the 
wonders of the heavens are being revealed. 

The Influence of Science. 
I am not going to write the whole history of the 
science of astronomy; nor of the vast importance this 
science is to man, but the point I want to magnify is the 
influence that the science of astronomy; or the knowledge 
of the movements of the heavenly bodies and what they 
really are, is having on the minds of the leaders of men, 
who believe they have a mission to work in the vineyard 
of the Lordj in fitting them better to teach their flocks 
how to live and let live, and guiding them into paths of 
nsefulness; instead of (as in the old way) trying to teach 
them how to live in some other world that they knew not 



Examining the Eecords 67 

of, and sending them over the border to get their reward 
whenever they happened to rebel and refused to believe 
their dogmas. 

And of how much more importance it is that we have 
all the sciences taught in our public schools, than the 
reading and expounding of the Bible as an inspired book, 
and the standard of truth and reliability ; when in fact it 
is made up of many books, all written at various times, 
in an age of superstition and ignorance. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY 

All the religions in the world as we find them today 
have come to be what they are through the process of 
evolution, from mythology up to Christianity or Christ- 
ian Science, or up to our religion, whatever that religion 
may be, just as surely as that living organisms have 
come to what they are through the process of evolution 
from the single cell up to man or the dog or the horse or 
the bird or the honey-bee or the oak or the orange, or any 
animate or inanimate organism we might mention. 

The Christian Science religion is the first religion of 
all the ages that has ever laid any claim on science. 

If the fundamental principles of Christian Science 
arc scientific, then there is no foundation upon which to 
build any other science. 

If the sun and moon and stars and the world and 
every thing in the world including man himself is but the 
image of the mind, then all the material sciences are but 
dross. 

Bui you gay, is there no science in religion? 

We say, most certainly there is; the Golden Rule is 






The Religion of Humanity 69 

a scientific principle pure and simple, it is the germ and 
the all of pure religious science, or the science of so- 
ciology. 

Whether this germ was first discovered by Christ 
and made a cardinal principle in religion, or by Buddha 
hundreds of years before Christ, or by some religious 
founder hundreds of years before Buddha's time will 
make no difference. 

It is the germ from which will grow the one great 
religion of the future, the Eeligion of Humanity. 

In that day Nature's law will be man's God, and 
humanity his religion, and the Golden Eule his Bible. 

Then the religion of ethics will be reduced to a 
science, of which there will be but one school. 

All the mythology, superstition and dogma, that has 
been the cause of all the religious chaos will be burned 
out by the torch of education, and become as dross to be 
remembered no more forever. 

But you ask: who will be the priests and preachers 
of this new religion? To which we reply: the same old 
priests and preachers will be the ministers and teachers. 
The same old choirs will sing the same old hymns or new 
ones, and the pews will be filled in the same old way. 

Faithful Wokkees 

From the time that man first established a church to 
this day, the priests and ministers have been faithful 
workers in the vineyard; they have preached the best 
they knew, they have taught as they were told to teach. 

The priests and ministers of the religion of the 
future will be first required to pass in all the branches of 



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the sciences taught in the public schools, after which they 
will be taught the science of sociology, and the religion 
of humanity, when they will be prepared to teach their 
little flocks how to practice the Golden Eule, and how to 
love the good and the beautiful. 

But you ask : who shall found this new religion of the 
future? To which we reply: it is already founded. It 
has been in the world for ages and man knew it not. 

Buddha laid down the Golden Eule for men to live 
by. 

Christ laid it down for a rule of life. 

But it has been taught by the priesthood to be a rule 
to die by, and the religious man has been preparing to die 
by it, instead of learning to live by it, all the way down 
the ages ; that is, he has been taught that the chief end of 
man was to glorify God, and enjoy him forever. 

He has been promised heaven and eternal life if he 
was good to his neighbor, or hell and eternal damnation 
if he wasn't. His selfishness was appealed to. He was 
given to understand that the fate of his own soul was at 
stake, not that it meant any salvation to his neighbor. 

Will there be a new organization for this new re- 
ligion of humanity! We think not. 

This germ of the science of religion is in all religions 
and is bound to grow as education advances. 

Church Federation 

This one great church of the religion of humanity 
will come about by federation. 

First, a!! the different churches of one faith will be- 
come federated together, then the religions of different 



The Eeligion of Humanity 71 

faiths will come to agree on the principles that constitute 
the science of religion, and thus will come about the fed- 
eration of the world. 

All the most advanced religions are now working to 
that end, but the time is not yet. However, this world's 
federation of religions will come about long before all the 
dogmas, superstitions and isms have been burned out by 
the torch of education. 

Worsted threads of theories will be woven with the 
golden threads of Science, to pacify the ignorant grown- 
ups, the same as we tell fairy tales to please the children. 

The great mass of people in the world today are as 
yet but children in the process of evolution. It is a great 
deal more satisfying for them to believe the moon is a 
green cheese, than it would be for them to know it is not, 
or to believe in a miracle, than to know that a miracle is 
impossible. 

All of us who are old enough to have noted the 
changes that have taken place in its teachings, and in the 
services as conducted in the churches, in the last half 
century, can see a great difference. 

Those who are hide-bound look upon these changes 
with alarm, but those who have taken pains to educate 
themselves and keep abreast with the advance of science 
look upon the changed conditions with pleasure. They 
can see that the churches are advancing, if they do seem 
to be lagging behind. 

Nothing that appeals to selfishness, whether it be 
the healing of the body, or the saving of the soul has any 
place in the science of religion. 

Even justice for justice's sake must become the fun- 
damental principle of religion in practice as well as 



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theory, before religious harmony can prevail. 
Sociology 

Sociology, or the organization of society, has come 
up from barbarism to the present state of civilization 
through a long and perilous process of evolution ; Church 
and State have worked hand in hand in the struggle, 
sometimes the State has predominated in the work, at 
other times the Church has assumed full control. 

The evolution of society has not been a steady climb 
along a straight and beautiful road garlanded with 
flowers, but rather through a wilderness of experience. 

The pendulum of progress has been swinging to the 
extremes all the way up the hill, and deluge and 
avalanche have sent many highly organized and civilized 
communities to the bottom of the hill, and scattered 
them, to flounder around in the swamps of the wilder- 
ness, and to begin the climb all over again. 

At our stage of civilization and organization of 
society we find the work of progress and evolution 
divided between the state and church among the leading 
nations of the world. 

It is the duty of the state to lay down the decalogue 
for preserving the people's health and morals, and com- 
pel ling justice between man and man, and to enforce 
obedience at any cost. 

It is the church's mission to teach truth, loyalty and 
obedience, purity, love and charity, honesty, justice and 
self denial, by appealing to man's patriotism, sympathy 
and generosity. For selfishness lias no place in religion, 
and man's greedy, sordid, selfish nature should never be 



The Religion of Humanity 73 

appealed to by promising to reward him with a golden 
horn and a jewelled crown, and an alderman's chair in 
a mythical town, where the streets are all paved with 
solid gold, where the sun always shines and never goes 
down, and where it is summer all the year around, so it is 
never too hot or ever too cold; where he will have 
nothing to do but toot on his horn, the same old tune that 
was tooted when Adam was born, and always be young 
and never grow old ; with wings like a dove, to go sailing 
around through all eternity just looking down, into the 
beautiful streets of glittering gold. 

Promises like these may make church members but 
will never make a true Christian, or will never make a 
Eeligious Scientist, which is a better name for the true 
believer in the Eeligion of Humanity. 

The Evolution of Eeligion 

The trouble with religion is the same as it is with 
all other organizations that owe their progress to evolu- 
tion. It is burdened with the hereditary swaddling 
clothes of its youth, or more plainly speaking it is wear- 
ing its primitive fig leaf apron for its under-garment. 

The story of the creation don't fit into the education 
of this generation. 

The story of heaven, or another world, and of the 
war in heaven by which the devil was created, and the 
story of the Garden of Eden episode, and of the fall and 
God's discovery of His mistake, followed by the deluge, 
and the beginning all over again, and the promise of the 
Messiah, in whose coming to believe would insure eternal 
life to the biggest outlaw that was ever executed for his 



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brutality, or in refusing to believe would damn to eternal 
oblivion the bravest patriot that ever had a monument 
erected to his memory. 

All this taken literally is too silly to be repeated by 
a cultured priest or minister before an educated people. 

Christian Science, so-called, is a long ways out of 
the woods in that this religion has discarded the creation 
story and the two worlds theory. 

But this too, is a case where the pendulum has swung 
to the other extreme. In the swing, this religion has 
gathered up the cobwebs of medieval times and has 
become so entangled in the meshes that one has to be- 
come absolutely dead to this world, with his nose ever- 
lastingly in the little book to be able to distinguish the 
gold from the dross. 

Religion was born in ignorance and mystery. 

All the religions in the world to-day have grown out 
of other religions before them. 

The church was founded on superstition and mythol- 
ogy. The mystery of the great unknown had to be ac- 
counted for, and the church has always had the easiest 
way in the world to account for everything by saying: 
(iod did it. 

Whenever the church decorated its altar with a 
beautiful flower, the like of which had never been seen 
before, it never looked for any natural cause for the 
flower's beautiful variegated colors, but said "God did 
it" -'"id the choir Bang "Praise God from whom all 
blessings flow". 

Bui when the observing scientist pointed out to the 
church that the germ that was in the seed from which 



The Religion of Humanity 75 

the plant grew that produced this beautiful flower, be- 
came a germ by the sexual union of male and female 
pollen, and that probably the reason for the flower's 
variegated beauty was because it had one white and one 
red parent, and that it would have been impossible for 
the seed to have germinated and produced the plant that 
produced the flower if this sexual union had never taken 
place, to all of which the church was ready to laugh iis 
to ridicule. 

When the teachers of theology came to respect the 
scientist enough to think he may be more than half right 
in this matter, they still feel so sure that there is a God 
behind it all, which the scientist in his ignorance of God 
has overlooked, that they do not think it is any part of 
their mission to investigate for themselves; in fact they 
believe it would be sacriligious. 

They are educated to believe that man is a dual 
being, having a material body and a spiritual body or 
soul, and that their mission is to minister to man's spir- 
itual body, or to look after men's souls and keep them 
from getting lost in the shuffle. 

Eevelations of Science 

When the scientist points out to the theologians the 
process by which man has evolved from the lower ani- 
mals, and explains the reasons for differentiations, or 
changes taking place which has brought about this evolu- 
tion, and shows them by the analogy of anatomy and 
physiology that man and the animal's physiology belong 
to the same family, and by the similarity of the responses 
to the sense impressions, that they do not differ intellec- 



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tually, and spiritually (if that term may be allowed in 
any case) only in degree. 

And when the scientist points out the wonders re- 
vealed by chemical reactions, and the indestructibility of 
matter, and of the unity of matter and force, and that 
matter and force seem to be the all that there is in the 
heavens. 

And when the scientist tells them that this earth is 
going through a process of evolution which had its be- 
ginning in being thrown off from the sun, all blazing hot 
as the sun itself, and that it will end in becoming as cold 
and dead as the moon, and that this world is one of a 
family of planets that have all been thrown off from the 
sun, and that the matter and force that made it possible 
for the sun to produce these planets was given to the sun 
by the falling into the sun; fragments of matter that 
have been scattered in the heavens by the crash of other 
worlds; that very probably had gone through the same 
evolutionary process in some other solar system that this 
world is going through in our solar system. 

And that by looking around among the one thousand 
million suns and their solar systems with the telescope 
they can sec nebulas where a solar system has just begun 
to form, by casting of worlds all blazing hot, and others 
in all stages of evolution to the dim suns that have nearly 
burned out, and still after pointing out to them all I 
wonderful revelations of science, they seem to persist in 
teaching the same old dogmas. 

\«»w lot us suppose that among the one thousand 
millions of these solar systems there should he one world 
in every one thousand solar systems where the stage of 



The Religion of Humanity 77 

evolution and the conditions are similar to our own. 

This would mean that there are one million worlds 
that might be inhabited. 

But is that all? We are told that the nearest star 
with its family of planets is twenty thousand billions of 
miles from our solar system, and that probably there are 
no two solar systems any nearer together. But as vast 
as these distances seem to be there is room for more 
suns. For we must not forget that space is a place where 
the center is everywhere, and whose circumference is 
nowhere. 

That means that if we could take the telescope out to 
the farthermost star visible through the telescope, and 
survey the heavens beyond, we would find we were just 
as much in the center as we are now, and if we could go 
on in the same direction to all eternity we would be in 
the center always. 

And now we come to eternity. 

What is eternity? 

Eternity has no past or future. It is one eternal 
now. 

Can we comprehend space or eternity? 

No, no more than the teachers of theology can com- 
prehend God who, they tell us, was in the beginning, and 
is everywhere present. For there never was any begin- 
ning, and there is no such place as everywhere. 

That would mean an end to eternity, and a boundary 
to space. 

The D. D.'s Alarmed 

And when we return to the church after out flight 



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of speculation, is it any wonder we find the D. D.'s view- 
ing with alarm the inroads that science is making on the 
institution that they supposed was founded on a rock. 

They believe the church is responsible for bringing 
man up from barbarism to the present state of civiliza- 
tion, and they believe that the fear of hell and the 
promise of heaven were the great civilizers, and that if 
we take away their thunder, there will be no restraint left 
sufficient to hold society together, and that man will 
revert back to savagery and be like the beasts where 
there is no hell for dogs. 

No Need for Alarm 

But there is no need for alarm, we have a living 
example with us that should quiet their fears on this 
point. We refer to the Christian Science Church; this 
church has eliminated heaven and hell (and earth as 
well), and notwithstanding all their cobwebs, there never 
was a church that came into such prominence so quickly 
as this church has; the membership is principally made 
up, according to their own testimony, of what were phy- 
sical and mental wrecks, and they seem to be the health- 
iest and happiest community in the world to-day. 

No, there is no occasion for alarm, the scientific 
principle of fellowship that is in all religions has been 
sufficient to overcome a multitude of cobwebs and super- 
>t it ions, and is bound to grow as education advances. 

There is no religion upon the earth that does not 
contain beautiful traits. Otherwise it could not be be- 
Lieved in by reasoning man, nor have its followers from 
generation to generation. 



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It is true the church organizations have been a great 
powor in influencing the trend of events that have been 
instrumental in the evolution of society from barbarism 
to civilization. But we must not overlook the fact that 
our present civilization with its high moral standards of 
virtue, honesty and justice, and its sanitary conditions, 
and enjoying as it does a multitude of comforts, con- 
veniences and luxuries that no former civilization ever 
dreamed of, owes more to the free and independent 
thinkers, and inventors, and investigators into the 
secrets of nature, and the discoverers of material truths, 
who have lived within the last hundred years, than it 
owes to all the priests and theologians who take their 
orders from the musty past, that have labored so earn- 
estly and faithfully, in season, and out of season, since 
the dawn of history. 

The Benediction should no longer be "Father, Son 
and Holy Ghost", the mythical Triune, or three in one 
God, who, it is said, came into the world in some super- 
natural manner, and lived like the rest of us, and suf- 
fered a most ignominious death, that man's sordid, 
selfish, insignificant little soul (whatever that may be) 
might have eternal life. 

But rather we should henceforth pronounce the Ben- 
ediction of the Eeligion of Humanity which is, Mother, 
Dame and Holy Bride, the truly three in one. She who 
does really give up her body to perpetuate the race, so 
that man shall not perish from off the face of the earth, 
and in whose righteousness and divine love rests all our 
hope for the future of humanity. 

All that is needed to bring about this religious 



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science, or the Religion of Humanity, is for the priest- 
hood to be given a higher education. Their moral train- 
ing is all right but their scientific education is sadly be- 
hind the times. 

The church rituals and literature must be purged of 
all that runs counter to the established truths in science ; 
all the speculations in regard to the unknown or the 
future, which are so gratifying to our imaginations, must 
be deduced from the wisdom of this age, instead of from 
that hazy dream of St. John's on the Isle of Patmos. 

The camera and the lantern must become important 
adjuncts to the church and Sunday school. 

The illustrations and lectures must be along educa- 
tional lines embracing all branches of the sciences, so 
that the young and old may have a chance to obtain some 
general knowledge of the world we live in. This will 
have the effect of preparing the children to take greater 
interest in their studies at school and of clearing the 
of superstition, and the fear and dread of the future. 

The drama and the stage must take the place of the 
sermon and the pulpit, to illustrate by act our highest 
ideals of truth, virtue, honor, love, home, brotherhood, 
and patriotism. 

When all this comes about, as it surely will, we will 
cease to be humbug chasers and hero worshipers, and 
become worshipers of truth, and of all that is good and 
beautiful in nature, art, music, and the great drama of 
practical effort that is daily performed on the stage of 
human activities. 

We will forget to sing the psalms of some poly- 
gamous l<in- of the hoary past, and he happy in sinu-in.i;- 
41 Home, Sweet Home'', the "Star Spangled Banner", 
and "My Country. 'Tis of Thee". 



CHAPTER VI. 



WHAT WILL THE HARVEST BE? 

But what will the harvest be, with China and all the 
Orient adopting our system of public schools and teach- 
ing the sciences? With the establishing of a court of 
arbitration to do away with wars, and insure the peace 
of the world ; and with the federation of all the religions 
of the world under the one banner of the Religion of 
Humanity. 

With the government's strong arm to care for the 
people's health, comfort and security, and to push for- 
ward the good work of reclamation until all the deserts 
shall be made to blossom as the rose, and to continue to 
reforest the mountains until they shall become God's 
own temples, and to boost the good roads movement until 
all the roads all over the world are paved with solid rock, 
and lined with beautiful trees bearing nuts, fruits and 
flowers. 

And to keep everlastingly at the river and harbor 
improvements until the whole earth is subdivided into 
land and water. 

And with the transmutation of the baser metals into 



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silver, so every child may be born with a silver spoon in 
his mouth, and survive the measles, the mumps and the 
shingle, and live to grow up, and die of old age without 
ever getting his eye teeth cut. 

And when agricultural pursuits shall continue to 
pursue until all the earth is one vineyard and garden. 

And when all the wheels of industry shall continue 
to wheel until every wheel is on wheels. 

And when the subdividers and homebuilders shall 
continue to subdivide and build until every family in the 
world shall have a house and lot and a home of their own 
where they can build a mosquito smudge in their 
own back yard, and sit under their own vine and fig tree 
on their own front porch, then man will be prepared to 
multiply and replenish the earth. 

Now we are up against it again. 

It seems to be the tendency of the age all right. 

But let us see what we have been doing in this mul- 
tiplying business already. 

Suppose we take the last three centuries, together 
with all the poverty, squalor and unsanitary conditions 
that have prevailed. We find that the people of Europe 
have doubled every century. 

Now if we do not improve on these conditions at all, 
and the whole world shall do as well, and continue to 
double in population every century for ten hundred 
years, which is only a speck in the bucket, in the evolu- 
tion of the world, there will be one thousand people 
where there lb only one now or fifteen hundred thousand 
million all told. 

In twenty centuries, which will be only two specks in 



What Will the Harvest Be ? 83 

the bucket, there will be one million where there is only 
one now, or fifteen hundred thousand billion all told. 
And in thirty centuries, which will be only three specks 
in the bucket of time, there will be one billion where there 

is only one now, or 

Oh! well, it is impossible for this thing to go on, so 
we will have to find a way to regulate this multiplying 
business long before that time, or something is going to 
happen. 

How Shall We Eegulate 

But how shall we build up the home and fill it with 
sunshine and keep down population? 

How shall we regulate? 

Man will never have to regulate so he need not ask 
that question. 

Woman is taking possession of the schools, and the 
churches and the industries, and when she has been given 
her franchise it won't be many centuries before she will 
proceed to disfranchise man, and take full possession of 
government, and then she will regulate the off- springing 
to a mathematical equilibrium. 

Woman has been given h — 1 all down the ages from 
the time she divided her apple with Adam in the Garden 
Eden, and when she comes to be the whole cheese, man 
will get his. 

The sociological state of perfection to which the 
honey-bee has attained might well serve to illustrate how 
nicely the off-springing will be regulated, and what will 
become of the poor old man, when woman comes to run- 
ning the hive. 



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But there are other ways of keeping down popula- 
tion than by regulating the off-springing. 

Man seems to be keeping population down all right 
in these latter times by killing off the people with all 
manner of public and private conveyance machines, 
which are killing and maiming more people every year 
than any of the wars in the past ever killed and wounded 
in a year. 

And when the sky comes to be filled with flying 
machines going in every direction with the chances of 
their coming down in everybody's front yard unexpect- 
edly, nobody will be safe outside of a cyclone cellar. 
Rotten Politics 

But all these other ways of keeping down population 
are tame compared with what dreadful things will hap- 
pen when the Insurgents succeed in turning the govern- 
ment over to the Socialists, and the Socialists have 
turned it over to the Anarchists, whose theory of gov- 
ernment is that every man shall be a law unto himself. 

Our present state of civilization has been built up 
and is held together by having a real boss at the head of 
each department of government, the same as they have 
in mil loading or any other business organization. 

The best government that was ever devised is a 
party representative constitutional government, where 
the people are capable of self-government. But the tend- 
ency of the times (1910) seems to be that the whole 
people shall rule, and it is a very wise old saying, that: 
"What is everybody's business is nobody's business". 

Besides, this democratic idea of government rightly in- 
terpreted is mob rule pure and simple. 



What Will the Harvest Be ? 85 

When a democracy reaches that stage where it is 
possible for three per cent of the people to nominate a 
boss when every other man wants the job, and only five 
per cent to elect him when only nine per cent take enough 
interest to vote, and when the boss gets on to the job and 
tries to boss, only to meet a two per cent referendum, 
and if he should hustle around and try to knock out the 
referendum with a three per cent referendum, it will only 
be to get his block knocked ofT with a four per cent recall 
club, and another boss set up in his place to go through 
with the same farce, and be retired to private life before 
he has time to collect his graft; it is, to say the least, 
"purty rotin' poley-ticks ". 

If the primary contraption was really what it 
appears to be on the surface, and worked in practice as 
we have pictured it out in theory, and if it really did give 
every man that is trying to get to the public crib a square 
deal it wouldn't be so bad; but it won't. It is only a 
decoy duck, calculated to scatter the silly political geese 
in their wild scramble to wing a duck or two apiece, while 
the machine politician takes a pot shot and bags the 
game. And after the game is bagged it is likely to consist 
of only a pelican and mud hen, neither of which are to the 
taste of the intelligent voter who on election day will find 
he is between the devil and the deep sea as to choice, or 
disfranchised altogether. 

Now if the reader will sit down and honestly try to 
figure out the difference between the In-iti-ati-ve — ref- 
er-en-dum — re-call saints, the di-vi-up-bunch, and the to- 
hell-with-the-rich crowd, he will find they are just as near 
alike, on the science of government, as three peas in a 
pod. 



86 The Jumble 

All these would-be bosses are simple, honest folks, 
who believe they have a mission to reform the world, and 
every one, with his empty tin can, thinks he must tie it 
on to the government's tail or be d — d. 

I love my country, but oh — you statesmen. 

Now I find myself on common ground with the wise 
and the learned. 

When I come to telling what is going to happen a 
thousand years hence, or talking politics, or dishing out 
my dope to the innocent, I know as much as anyone; I 
might write a lot of funny things about nothing, but I 
won't, because I will be too old to care what happens, 
even a hundred years from now. If I try my hand at 
politics, it will be only to lose my reputation as an honest 
man, and if I try to pave my way to glory by slinging 
mud at the rabble, there is danger that the goblins will 
get me if I don't look out. 

Nevertheless, if universal brotherhood and a coop- 
erative commonwealth shall ever prevail, the competitive 
rivalry for place, and a material reward of merit for the 
studious, industrious and thrifty will be its glory. 

If the industrial problems of civilization are ever 
solved they will be solved by the silent, enterprising cap- 
tains of industry, and not by the noisy Socialists, labor 
anions, I. W. YYVs or any other brand of anarchists, who 
go parading under the red flag, and whose teachings 
would lend to the lazy heaven of worthlessness and the 
purgatory of industry. 

Civilization Is founded on government and Law; free 
speech and a free press, within limitations, are its bul- 
warks; bul if the laws are to be respected, and civiliza- 



What Will the Harvest Be ? 87 

tion preserved in a government where the people rule, 
the soap box orator, that Appeal to Eeason and all the 
other anarchistic press, preaching and teaching class- 
hatred, revolution and treason must be suppbessed. 

But after all is said and done, one-half the world 
does not know how the other half lives. The big fish eat 
up the little ones ; the early bird gets the worm. What is 
one man's meat is another man's poison. For everyone 
who wears the crown of victory, some poor devil has to 
suffer the humiliation of defeat, and so the struggle goes 
on. Since man first came upon the stage of action — in 
this little world of ours — great cities and nations and civ- 
ilizations have flourished and have long since crumbled 
to dust and been forgotten. All the civilizations of today 
will pass away and all our fine cities will be buried in the 
dust of the desert, or submerged beneath the sea, to be 
forgotten forever, and other grand cities will flourish 
above them and other civilizations will be struggling with 
the same old problems of the race. And while this strug- 
gle is going on — from the first little whorle to the end of 
the world — is it too much to believe that the same strug- 
gle is going on in countless millions of other worlds, or 
that the same struggle has been going on from all eter- 
nity in the countless billions of worlds that are now dead 
with their suns all burned out, and that the struggle will 
continue to go on to all eternity in the countless billions 
of other worlds yet to be born in light and come into 
existence through the crash of these dead worlds with 
their burned out suns. 

Everything in nature is continually changing, no 
organized mind or matter remain the same for a moment, 



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evolutions of thought always follow in the wake of the 
advance of science. 

In the swing of time from eternity to eternity what 
will the harvest be, or will there be any harvest? That's 
the question. 



CHAPTER VII. 



CONCLUSION 

It has not been my purpose in writing this little book 
to give any lessons in science, or explain in detail any of 
the processes of evolution. 

Because I have never had a technical education in 
any branch of science, and am not qualified to teach. 

But I have transcribed a few rambling thoughts into 
this little book, in the hope that the perusal of these lines 
may awaken an interest in some poor fellow mortal, — 
whose opportunity, like the author's, for a common 
school education was very limited, or who for some 
reason failed to take up all the branches that are taught 
in the public schools of our day, — to at least procure all 
the text-books used in the public schools and universities 
that he or she has not already studied, especially in the 
scientific courses, and fit themselves to become better 
acquainted with the world we live in, because we are 
going through it for the last time, and when we do get 
through, if we should happen to find our way up to the 
pearly gates, and St. Peter should ask us which of the 
million or so of the worlds we came from, and we did not 



90 The Jumble 

know, we might lose our last chance of heaven just on 
account of our ignorance. 

For those who love to know the truth, and hate to be 
deceived, to take up the study of the sciences, and educate 
themselves broadly, is to soon find themselves in a world 
so beautiful that they will wish to live always, and if 
unselfish enough to be a good Christian, they will be 
satisfied to live as long as they can see anybody live and 
try to make this a better world to live in for all those 
that shall come after them, leaving the next world to take 
care of itself. 

For which we are happy to be able to say, 

We see so many millions are doing to-day. 

What more fills our hearts with pleasure and delight, 

Is to see the future look so hopeful and bright. 

For self-education, the Encyclopedia Brittannica is 
the greatest help after the school text-books have been 
read in their regular series. 

All who are interested in science keep themselves 
posted on all the new discoveries in science through the 
science publications, such, for instance, as the Science 
Popular Monthly, and other periodicals more specialized 
to the different branches of science. 

The subject is so large and my book so small, that 
I have only been able to hit the high places; but I want 
to assure the reader who has not studied the sciences, 
thai I have been very careful to keep within the records, 
and not give any figures, or make any statements of fact 
or speculation concerning chemistry, astronomy, physi- 
ology, bacteriology, or any branch of the sciences that 



Conclusion 91 

may not be found in the text-books of the public schools 
and colleges, or of record in more recent discoveries. 

Dak win 

Now in conclusion, I will give my word for it, that 
if the reader will inquire of the men at the head of the 
greatest institutions of learning, in England, France, 
Germany, or the United States, and ask them which is the 
greatest book, they will all answer with one accord 
"Darwin''. 

So it would seem to us that anyone in this day and 
generation, whether he be a man of the gospel, or a man 
of the world, would have too much self-respect to expose 
his ignorance by criticising Darwinism before he had 
even given himself the trouble to read what the greatest 
educators in the world consider to be the greatest book 
in the world, that was ever thought out and written by 
one man. 

THE END. 



If this little jumble has interested you, and should 
you have some friends or acquaintances whom you would 
like to have read the book, you may make out a list of 
them, writing each name and address plainly, and mail 
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books will be mailed to each separately, with your name 
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ME. HOEACE C. KELLOGG 

1325 Warren St., Los Angeles, Cal. 



A MOONLIGHT SPIEL 

When I'm kneeling at your feet 
Holding hands in rapture sweet 
Until my heart begins to beat 

And throb to beat — the ban', 
You have not a thing to fear 
From the man who loves you dear, 
Although you may feel mighty queer 

To be so near — a man. 
With my arm around your waist, 
Holding you in love's embrace, 
And looking in your smiling face, 

Until we taste — a kiss. 
You may think it's going some 
To be kissed by your old chum, 
But I am sure no harm will come 

From such a crum — of bliss. 

CHORUS: 
When we take a moonlight walk 
Just to have the neighbors talk, 
You're the girl to walk the chalk 

And listen to a moonlight spiel. 
So, my little Cupid dart, 
If you'll give to me your heart 
I will try to do my part 

And be as true to you as steel. 






Now, my little fairy queen, 

Let us romp the meadows green 

And never in our lives be seen 

A'looking mean — or sad. 
We'll hold hands a little more 
And when your years count a score 
I'll engage the girl I adore 

And sack of ore — from Dad. 
I will take you by the hand, 
Lead you to the fairy land 
Where they will make us wife and man; 

A home to plan — and make. 
Then we'll feel so fine and nice 
When, all covered up in rice, 
Old shoes to sell at any price, 

And a big slice — of cake. 

CHORUS: 
When the nuptial knot is tied 
I will hug you to my side, 
For you will be my charming bride, 

And joy and pride — you know. 
You will always have your way, 
Loved and petted every day; 
I'll not compel you to obey 

Or beg and pray — for dough. 
I will scrub and wash and wring, 
All the wood and water bring, 
So you'll not have to do a thing 

But play and sing — to me. 
I will dress you mighty swell, 
Always keep you looking well, 
For since you are my first love, Nell, 

My only belle — you'll be. 
CHORUS : 

HORACE C. KELLOGG. 



THE SORROWS OF A POOR OLD MAN 

The poor old man left all alone, 

Bereft of every tie; 
Whose earthly hopes have long since flown 

Away beyond the sky. 
With not a soul to hear him sing 

Or see him heave a sigh, 
In his lone cabin by the spring, 

Where no one passes by. 

He sits alone by his fireside 

Through all the winter's blast, 
Dreaming of that faithful bride 

And happy days all past. 
Of the good time he struck it rich 

And made his pile so fast, 
Only to fall into the ditch 

Of poverty at last. 

The sorrows of a poor old man, 

When living all alone; 
Try and tell it the best we can, 

The truth will ne'er be known. 
If he is worried when he's well 

His troubles are his own; 
Or he may be as sick as hell, 

There's none to hear him groan. 

HORACE C. KELLOGG. 



